- History
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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
- Finance
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of her Spanish and German literature books which are wasted on me, plus a lot of novels and books on art and architecture shared by us both. Evelyn used to edit an art magazine called 'FMR,' so we have a common interest in design.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.
- Cinema
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that interactive storytelling can be what cinema was in the 20th century: an art that deeply changes its time.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Photography was inspired by painting, cinema by theatre and photography, I don't believe that any new art form was ever created from scratch.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first movies were made by technicians building their own cameras. Movies became an art when technicians worked on the technique and artists took care of the content.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I also love magic, which is, you know, different than showmanship. Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider myself a showman, and I love magic, and I love art, and I love performance, and they're all separate.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone having to do with medicine will have looked at Frank Netter's art work... I decided I would make him my model... getting my degree in medical illustration and then going on to medical school.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020