- Pop
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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
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is supposed to hold up a mirror to its audience and ask, 'What do you believe? What do you think? What do you feel?' and if you look at a painting and it makes you feel nothing, that's a feeling as well.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems to me that not only the writing in most children's books condescends to kids, but so does the art. I don't want to do that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.
- Blames
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or 'real' art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
The church is not made up of one person but a whole congregation, and they should be able to interact with art without being told what to think.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rock n' roll was my art school. For many people from working-class backgrounds, rock wasn't a chosen thing, it was the only thing: the only avenue of creativity available for them.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I left art school and went in search of work, visiting publishers and showing them my drawings and illustrations, I was met with a polite and sometimes enthusiastic response but no commissions.
- Success
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not necessarily all about commercial success. It's about inspiring in the world and having what you do seen as art and a contribution to the world.
- Common Language
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- Nov 07, 2020