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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.
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- Politics
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Art should not be a tool of politics, but sometimes art can help make the political climate more open and help society become more free.
- Enable
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In my own art, I try to use my personal voice and effort to enable some Chinese people to see the possibilities of another kind of China. A more open China.
- See
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For my art, there is a common theme most of the time: it is using the things we can see to search for the world we cannot see.
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The role of art in society is not to resolve conflicts; rather, it is to express these conflicts and antagonisms.
- Painting
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Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
- People
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I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.
- Me
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When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.
- People
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Playing live is really the art form. You're a lot freer, a lot looser. You've got people there that can give you feedback, and then you can play off of that. There's so much more energy.
- Me
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Charlie Parker and Art Tatum to me were genius, and I'm right below that. I did, in my own way, do something different on the instrument, and that's the way I'd like to be remembered.
- Making
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The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.
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Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.
- Song
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The art of the three-minute song is more like journalism than writing a big 400-page book. You want to be brief, you want to make sense right yen and there. And sometimes that takes a bit of work.
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