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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!
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- Nov 07, 2020
High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.
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Art and culture and all of these things - they really matter. They shape your individuality.
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Jazz is such a living art form. It happens right in the moment. You weave a story by changing certain elements and components.
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Art is a direct reflection of the life you live. What you experience comes out in your work.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had really great art classes. Really great art teachers. Arts played a very important role in having a place to express yourself uniquely.
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- Nov 07, 2020
At our house, my father loved the arts. Among his favorite things was 'The Metropolitan Museum of Art Album of Miniatures' - a box set of small books on different art periods. I'd go into the living room at night and sit on the arm of his chair as he studied the images.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.
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Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.
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Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.
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We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... nobody will sit for art anymore. What a dismaying state of humanity.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
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What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football is one side of me. Art is another. Travel is another.
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