- Beauty
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People that went to art house theatre have more options, I used to go, but now think any movie can be delivered in a red envelope three months after it's released so why not watch it on my flat screen in the comfort of home.
- Elizabethan
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art history and Elizabethan poetry don't employ workers; the arduous and tedious application of business sciences such as computer programming and accounting does.
- Nov 07, 2020
In art, the obvious is a sin.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more the technocrats programme it down to the smallest detail, the more the powerful manipulate it, football continues to be the art of the unforeseeable. When you least expect it, the impossible occurs: the dwarf teaches the giant a lesson, and a scraggy, bow-legged black man makes an athlete sculpted in Greece look ridiculous.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we talk about art in general... all the works of art, each one of them could reflect a moment in the history of mankind, the time in which it was created.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
- Large
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- Nov 07, 2020
This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.
- Judgment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities if it were not for my passion for art.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020