- Cinema
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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
- Foundation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Peapod Foundation provides tools and mentors encouraging children to express themselves through music and art.
- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's probably the Dutch who are to blame for starting the whole 'art business', because before they came along, art was attached to relatively stable structures, and it was everybody's. It was like going to the movies.
- Fundamental Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Due to the failure of politics, which has become a process of middle-management, art has become one of the last open spaces to question core beliefs and to design a viable future. Art becomes an open space where we can ask fundamental questions about ourselves.
- Inspirational
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful thing to do - making life flow more easily - but art confronts life, allowing it to stop and perhaps change direction - they are completely different.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're an artist, it's OK to put your money into your art. The advantage, in hindsight, is that you become the film, and the film becomes you; you breathe it.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Please bear in mind that my observations and thoughts are the outcome of my own unaided impulse and curiosity alone; for, besides myself, in our town there be no philosophers who practice this art, so pray, take not amiss my poor pen and the liberty I here take in setting down my random notions.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020