- Music
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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
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it helped me figure out the anatomy and physiology of mythology and its relevance in a society more incisively. How is it that no society can, or does, exist without them?
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got a long list of things I consider to be selling out. But amongst that list, one of them is when you make art without putting your guard down.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Distributing the music is so easy it's moot. So now the delicate art of calling attention to your music means everything. Marketing is distribution.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like any art, what is the most imprisoning thing is also the most delivering thing. If an actor knows he only has 12 syllables in a line, the challenge is, 'How can I interpret the meaning and contain it without going one syllable over?'
- Contemporary Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Musical composition, about which I know little, is a complicated art, and some contemporary music may be the equivalent of a complex abstract painting.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
A script arrived, and on the front cover - scrawled really big, as if it were a book report - is 'Django Unchained, written by Quentin Tarantino.' And I thought, 'Well, no art department came up with this; this is Quentin's writing.'
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody can figure out why it does what it does to human beings. But there is no other art form greater than music.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are all kinds of pretensions about art, but I'm just a guy who sings for his supper.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020