- 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
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, or HIV. I hate to say it - none of these make one an artist. They can help, but just as being gay doesn't make one witty... the only thing that makes one an artist is making art.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this point like professing an interest in air. Passion is nice. Erudition is admirable. But it's like that moment when good manners cross over into meaningless etiquette.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a little greedy for action scenes. I'm a martial artist, and any time I get to show off some of that art is great.
- Art History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.
- Form
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art of the novelist is not unrelated to the illness of multiple personality disorder. It's a much milder form. But the better the book, the nearer to the padded cell you are.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.
- Being Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started as a black and white photographer, but the colors I was seeing were just so lurid and compelling and awful at the same time. They got me looking at other contemporary art. I was gravitating more and more toward work that had visceral power, that wasn't necessarily about being beautiful but had some kind of horror in the palette.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.
- Any
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kind of flinching from any form of art or experience that PETA seems to advocate is ultimately life-hating.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020