- Poetry
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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
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
- Inspire
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
- Nov 07, 2020
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love art, being so close to the galleries, being by the water - and sunsets from the terrace.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital. We faced many challenges. Art was part of the answer, and my name, in the very beginning, was linked with two things: demolition of illegal constructions in order to get public space back, and use of colors in order to revive the hope that had been lost in my city.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like making art.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020