- People
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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
- Beautiful Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.
- Embedded
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- Nov 07, 2020
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
- Marketing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a fallacy that we've created because we frame the work that way too overtly. 'This is Hollywood.' 'This isn't Hollywood.' It's like, 'No, this is actually all Hollywood.' People are just framing them differently.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art kid.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
High tech is for a short time. But art is forever. People still admire a Picasso or a Van Gogh. But they don't admire the steam locomotive anymore.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
- Empty
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the standard for art is the decency of its creators, we're going to have a lot of empty museums.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020