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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
Magic touches people in the way great art does. It lets them see the world with new eyes.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of times, politics, global issues are very black and white. There is a place for that, but it's also fantastic to have art side by side, from different viewpoints, open for interpretations.
- Eternal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art has to address eternal issues.
- Being
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I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business.
- People
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The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.
- Political
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At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.
- Politics
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In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
- New
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The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy.
- Belief
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There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.
- Integrity
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I will never forget the pleasure and instruction I derived from working with a true master of his art, such as Edward G. Robinson was - and is. Surely his record for versatility, studied characterization - ranging from modern colloquial to the classics - and artistic integrity is unsurpassed.
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I had had no art training.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're living in a tremendously new landscape, and the possibility of what can be created is immense. These tools of the moving image have a relatively short history in art, and what we can do with them is still largely unknown. We are still innovating and finding ways to tell stories.
- Art Forms
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are engaging with so many art forms at once in the 21st century, but we're presented with them in a way that is so isolated.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020