- People
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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
- Hard Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into the industrial machinery to comply with rules of size and length and shelf-life has a hard time surviving as art.
- Idle
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 18, I began attending college for art and design, and I designed all sorts of things from furniture to industrial designs and even watches.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Egon Schiele is my favorite painter. There's just something about art - photography, painting, music, plays - whatever you see, sometimes there's a gut reaction that's more important or more visceral than what your brain is thinking about. You can't explain that reaction. It's like what happens when you fall in love.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It's such an art, so delicate.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my early career I was sort of anti-drag. I said, 'Drag is dumb and boring, and I want to be an effing weirdo and go crazy and rebel.' But now it's like I've come to respect and understand how deep and traditional drag as an art form is.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Commercial' is not the word that has to be said only by CEOs. It has to be something that is maybe the essence of design, because design has some sort of art in it and creation, but it's also some object that you have to use. There is also this pragmatic end to it.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020