- Nov 07, 2020
Art Quotes
Why people make it, and who it's for.
This set of "art" quotes leans toward purpose — one artist frames their work as a way to elevate others, while another argues that art shapes who a person becomes. For quotes on standing out through craft, see Great quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Great Man
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
- Community
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Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize.
- Heart
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The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
- Music
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Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
- Hip-Hop
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas, to have some fantasy.
- Like
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I'd like to make as much art as I possibly can before I die, so I'm working on a few things.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
- Buys
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020