- 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
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.
- Village
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took me there once or twice. And what I really remember is the design collection.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
- Nov 07, 2020
Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.
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- Nov 07, 2020