- Love
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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
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art from the East is influenced by nature and touch. That comes from being more attuned to the environment.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I coined this term 'freedom thru limitation' back in the '90s because I was sick of art being treated like pop, because of this boring 'anything can be art' theory.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because, again, just as leadership has a rather defined end point or purpose, social responsibility would seem to have a very clear moral context.
- Tradition
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to sound like an aesthete, but one has to be true to the art. And that means being true to the tradition of the art but also being true to your own artistic vision.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made.
- Nov 07, 2020
You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work of art.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The future art historians are going to be software guys who are going to go into the depths of the code to find out what was changed hundreds of years before.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called 'Big Bad Mama.' I turned 19 on the next movie I worked on, which was a black 'Blazing Saddles.' I worked in the art department. It was called 'Darktown Strutters.'
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020