- Fame
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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
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bjork has this kind of abstraction and formalism that you associate with art music or avant-garde music.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
For somebody like Kanye, fame is the fullest realisation of his art in a way. It's like an Andy Warhol dream or something. He's able to marshal all of these different artforms and media into his story, in this very layered, idiosyncratic way.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
People like to put music and art up against the dehumanizing character of commerce and business corporations.
- Nov 07, 2020
Film is a collaborative art form. I don't know why you wouldn't recognize the stunt performers.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been averse to theorizing about the art or craft of biography. Like Disraeli's biographer, Lord Blake, who offers the cautionary analogy of the biographical centipede unsure of her next step because of too much cerebration, I have made it my practice to let the facts find the theory.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't buy and sell art based on the personality of the artist. Or there wouldn't be much art bought and sold.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Putting is an art. When you're not feeling confident on the greens, it will affect the rest of your game.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'Art of Charm' podcast can be intimidating. Not just because it's the work of a lawyer called Jordan Harbinger. Not simply because Jordan has worked out how to weaponise all the many elements of the human personality that go to make up charisma in order to get people to listen to him, be impressed by him, or hire him.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020