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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
- Work
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If you don't work yourself up into a fever of greed and covetousness in an art museum, you're just not doing the job.
- People
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When I became director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was stodgy, gray, run by elitists. I said, 'Hey, let's kick the thing around.' I wanted to attract young people to the museum. I said, 'Make it hospitable. I want them to come. I want them to make dates, pick up girls, pick up boys - either way; I don't care.'
- Matter
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No matter how hard I tried to popularize, I never cheapened a great work of art.
- Nature
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Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
- People
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I don't feel I'm trying to make art. I'm trying to make interesting things. People can relate to that.
- Exponentially
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The world of contemporary art has, in a way, exponentially expanded in the last couple of decades, and almost every major city in Europe and Asia and North America has fallen over themselves to have their own contemporary art museum.
- Every Day
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Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!
- Nature
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As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.
- More
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Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
- Nature
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All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
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As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.
- Music
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I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.
- Political
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