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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
- Today
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- Nov 07, 2020
Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
We will, as Americans, inhale another culture on a fork before we try their music or their art or even, God forbid, hang out with the actual people.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always looked at the world through the prism of money to some degree. If you could follow the money, it explains a lot of things, in all sorts of aspects of the world. You can look at politics through the prism of money. You can look at art through the prism of money. You can look at sports through the prism of money.
- Great Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great art inspires great art.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go to universities to talk to the students and teach them how to watch movies. Movies have so many elements - acting, music, art direction, costumes. I also tell them not to watch pirated movies. At the cinema, they can enjoy the big screen and the surround sound.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I am that materialistic, actually. Obviously at home in the country the art collection is important, but we have one big room in the middle of the house where we do everything - the television, the kitchen, everything.
- Galleries
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whereas there's a wealth of galleries in Australia, everyone's got a gallery in Australia or wants your work. Because the art scene is smaller in Indonesia, there's not so much competition.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Live theater is an amorphous art, constantly shifting and evolving with every performance.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.
- Gesture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sincerely want to help create beauty in the world and move a culture of separateness back towards community. I really, really do, and I think art is a powerful way of doing that.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year career.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020