- Done
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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
- Canvas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.
- Nov 07, 2020
The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The course of Nature is the art of God.
- Respect
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- Nov 07, 2020
The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists. But there was never any notion that you could make a living out of art. On the rare occasions you had a gallery show, and sold a little work, well, that was just gravy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval method of working. I'll go back and use something that disgusted me 15 years ago but that I had enough sense to think about. Some artists change dramatically. I see my work more like history being written.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that... but that's what it did.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020