- 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
- Deliberately
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think at some point there may be artists who will get fed up, and they deliberately want to use their art as a means to rock the waves a little bit. And instead of doing the status quo, they'll deliberately go out to really make a change. I think Kendrick Lamar is an example of that.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the word 'artful'; it's such a great word, with its dark and its light side, its art and its cunning, the craft and the crafty of it - I've been preoccupied with the word 'artful' and the twin notions of 'cornucopia' and 'pickpocket' it suggests for quite some time.
- Nov 07, 2020
What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People tend to see modernism as the opposite of a celebration. They see it as a fracturing and an art built round an absence, but it's really a celebration of our existence.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could make art.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think with the whole new Internet media, I'm not necessarily Internet savvy, but I just feel that the way that art in general will be presented to the public is going to be different.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're creating ' it comes from the heart, the spirit, the soul. You're not manufacturing somebody else's plan, somebody else's blueprint, somebody else's idea that's not yours. So when you're creating, that's the beauty side of art, you know? It comes from within you.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
- Order
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
- Flourishes
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- Nov 07, 2020