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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Fear
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In the beginning, it was meant to be like a faceless art piece. Then I did the first record and it received enough notice to satisfy my needs. I questioned the procedure out of fear. The Silver Jews was never meant to be recreated live.
- Music
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I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.
- Mind
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Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject.
- Hate
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I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.
- Emotional
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To me, at its best, that's what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function.
- People
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It's a slippery slope when you make the argument that hip hop is only a black person's art. Certainly, its origins are in that community, but if you want it to endure as an art form you have to let other people have their way with it.
- Music
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It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.
- Mean
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I've always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn't mean anything professionally.
- Me
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All good art, to me, is uncertainty.
- Experience
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I think newspapers shouldn't try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper.
- Me
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I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art school would have prepared me to draw comics. Half of the people I know in comics went to art school, half of them didn't. Some of them went and dropped out.
- At Least One
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Anyone who doesn't know anything about art knows the name of at least one artist.
- Childhood
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I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.
- Love
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I actually love physics, but art is where I thought I could make a difference for my country.
- Like
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Most museums in Moscow, like Tretyakov, were established by philanthropists, whose passion for art allowed the development of culture on many levels.
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