- Politics
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- 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
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up with a bold feminist in my mother, I witnessed her march magnificently from mini to maxi, fashions so obviously linked to powerful statements of female progression, equality and recognition. I knew no other than freedom of expression in all the forms it came in; art, theatre, fashion, literature and music.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into this very thin slice of what's desirable and marketable, chances are the public will never get a chance to hear what they're doing.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your sanity is harder to get back than money or contacts. You are the magic. You are the art. You can't lose that.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When something in art or music piques my interest, I tend to go check it out, and most things I check out, I'm not very good at. But a few things I've gone to check out have given me back as much love as I gave them, usually much more.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love what Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh and Jesus all said - that love is really the driving principle of the creative act. In fact, they would say that great art is always inspired by love.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.
- Decaying
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can remember the moment when I suddenly felt that the camera was a living partner. I suddenly felt this is art, and the camera is a co-operative living person. After that I was extremely happy to act in films.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020