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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
- Ideal
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
- More
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Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
- Life
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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
- Live
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We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.
- Feel
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I believe that art elevates humanity. I feel incredibly privileged to be part of that.
- Money
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With acting, it wouldn't be about money: it would be about taking my life experiences and using them to create art.
- Life
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I want to listen to Beethoven and Mozart. I want to read the best minds. I want to live with uplifting art. I don't want to live a grubby life.
- Impossible
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Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.
- Never
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Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
- May
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The one thing about program television that's absolutely incompatible with any concept of art is that all decisions have to be made by program directors, whereas art is autonomous. It may be dependent, but it knows no superiors.
- Dance
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
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