- 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
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors.
- Egyptians
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we're lucky. And it's amazing how often people have lost sight of this.
- Leg
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- Nov 07, 2020
LACMA has the imprimatur of art, and that's a big leg up.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code.
- Consumption
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The creation is a very internal process, and publishing the book is a very external process. It is nice to see the book out in the world and people having the same reaction as when I created it. The point of all art is the emotional transference, and when that happens, the book has succeeded.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
All art to me is an empathetic act. Whoever's telling a story is trying to transfer emotion into someone else.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art, that great undogmatized church.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020