- Life
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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
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a study at the back of the house, overlooking our garden. It's tiny, just wide enough to fit my desk in. The walls are covered with pin boards and art postcards from galleries all over the world, including Tate, MoMA, and Lenbachhaus.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really admire Ana Mendieta. She was a Cuban American artist who died the year I was born and whose work examines violence, feminism, and belonging. Her art is always brave and visually arresting and vibrates with meaning.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
My computer background is a black and white picture I took of the Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum in Brazil.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to get rid of things; I don't collect many things. But I do keep great photography and art books.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningless universe... it just doesn't happen any more. In even the most indie of the indie films, everything has to come to some kind of neat conclusion.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I always wanted to play other artists. If I can't play an instrument, then I want to play a character that can. There is an artist behind everything, and I think that's beautiful.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art imitates life. It's definitely helpful to feel that way. You feel that way when you're leading a show and you're on a set.
- Plant
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.
- Nov 07, 2020
Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.
- Nov 07, 2020
Where thou art, that is home.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All this supraphysical life is built and expanded not because of the demands of the cosmic environment but because of the demands of the social environment.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any creation of art is conceived and born under influences, amidst the atmosphere of reverie and the most customary volition of the artist. It is there, in any case, that his work arises from.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020