- Clinging
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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
Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.
- High Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few.
- Order
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020