- Skin
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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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like Love, Art ties together all the great sacred traditions because they all used creative expression, or we wouldn't know about them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to art school for four years to learn a very expensive lesson - that there are many other artists who are way better than me.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had two different kind of parents. My mother was obsessive with movie stars and cinema and Hollywood because she worked in movies. And my father was obsessed with beauty everywhere - in art, in nature, animals.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am obsessed with fashion, like my mother, and I am obsessed with art, like my father.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
If your reading habits are anything like mine, then you can remember the exact moment that certain books came into your life. You remember where you were standing and whom you were with. You remember the feel of the book in your hands and the cover, that exact cover, even if the art has changed over the years.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous. I do that. I live off comics, and then I write books, but when you want movies, you cannot make movies without money.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death is an art, you know.
- Cinema
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art.
- Nov 07, 2020
Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020