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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.
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- Go
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Art can go beyond certain boundaries or blindness that we would have without that.
- Music
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Painting, music, photography, and visual art have been creative forms of expression for me for decades.
- Like
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I don't like any art form barraged in violence or hurt.
- Being
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It's the ownership of what's off that's the beauty in art. Its not about being exactly perfect.
- Love
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We love high-end art, but when you're looking at high-end art in music, a lot of the time, it's appreciated academically, but you can't feel it as much.
- Eccentricities
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The art editor in charge of the covers at the 'New Yorker' is Francoise Mouly. She's very familiar with the eccentricities and personalities of cartoonists, so working with her is very easy.
- God
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I take leave of Prome and her towering god, Shwa Lan-dau, at whose base I have been laboring with the kindest intentions for the last three months and a half. Too firmly founded art thou to be overthrown at present; but the children of those who now plaster thee with gold will yet pull thee down, nor leave one brick upon another.
- Excluded
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Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.
- Matter
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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
- House
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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
- People
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The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
- House
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Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art.
- Language
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I don't think art is bound by language or country.
- Expressed
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I don't really discriminate with my art. To me, it's my art, and it's to be expressed through whichever medium is there, whether it's treading the boards in the theater, on the small-screen TV, or on the large screen. I love theater, and it's definitely something I would love to do.
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- Nov 07, 2020