- Looking
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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
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've committed myself to perfecting the art of the straight man. I try really hard not to crack up.
- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went to art school in Romania, we learned the Golden Ratio Technique Theory, which taught us that when you draw a portrait and want to show an emotion, you change the eyebrows. They are the most important feature on the face.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going to beauty school and art school in Romania helped me to think of why we use makeup, and it's exactly how you do portrait. You use pencil to make a 3D effect. Makeup is the same... You are able to create an illusion of perfection and balancing proportion.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people.
- Haven
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art class was my safe haven.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020