- 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
- Emerged
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art of phlebotomy originated with bloodletting in 1400 B.C., and the modern clinical lab emerged in the 1960s - and it has not fundamentally evolved since then. You go in, sit down, they put a tourniquet on your arm, stick you with a needle, take these tubes and tubes of blood.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
In art school, it was about feeling. In architecture school, it was about ideas.
- Art Forms
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rock music has always embraced - and even represented - rebellion, rowdiness, and a robust disdain for social decorum. But along with more classical art forms like theater, opera, and the symphony, it's suffering from the distracted, smartphone-carrying audiences of the digital age.
- Experiencing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place.
- Losing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My kids have grown up knowing that their mom made a big investment in making sure there was art and language instruction in school and books in the library. Hopefully, they've internalized that.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been a Peter Blake fan and love street art and graffiti. I really like this street-art collective called Faile. They're from Brooklyn and make these prints of beautiful women.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like how women's bodies are Page 3 news. I just don't think that's big news. Women's bodies are women's bodies, and that's that. And I love to see beautiful - the female form in great art and great photography.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
To a synthetic chemist, the complex molecules of nature are as beautiful as any of her other creations. The perception of that beauty depends on the understanding of chemical structures and their transformations, and, as with a treasured work of art, deepens as the subject is studied, perhaps even to a level approaching romance.
- Excellence
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- Nov 07, 2020