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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 Nov 07, 2020

Nov 07, 2020

I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some girls into St Martin's art school and saw a voluptuous woman sitting on a stool being sketched. I decided to get myself fired.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

It's important to make art that you intended to make. If it gets compromised later, that's not a good thing.

Courage
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Nov 07, 2020

Creating art is painful. It takes time, practice, and the courage to stand alone.

Nov 07, 2020

You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.

You
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Nov 07, 2020

I look at art as a container. You can't get inside it, so you have to ask all of these questions.

Nov 07, 2020

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

Nov 07, 2020

I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to make up the words of art and create them verbally rather than build them.

Gold Standard
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Nov 07, 2020

If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.

Nov 07, 2020

I like the elitism of the art world. I think art for the people is a terrible idea.

World
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Nov 07, 2020

I would like to live forever in people's hearts and minds; that would be fun. I'll leave the world my art.

Nov 07, 2020

The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.

Nov 07, 2020

I am lucky because I do fine art, and that is half of my living. And then illustration provides the other half.

World
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Nov 07, 2020

I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York.

Nov 07, 2020

Students were pulled aside to spend more time in art class, and I wasn't one of them.

Nov 07, 2020

Art has the power to influence and to make you react to something that you normally wouldn't concern, worry, or even think about or wouldn't want to talk about.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

The Malayalam audience knows me as an art film actress, and I am fine with that because I know that such films come from the heart. It's difficult to do them, but the satisfaction you get is immense.

Nov 07, 2020

What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

People that are able to think in terms of concepts and offer us valuable forms of art are very exciting to me.

Nov 07, 2020

For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.

Nov 07, 2020

What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.

A recurring idea here is that film is not an elite pursuit reserved for scholars, but something meant to be watched plainly and directly. Continue exploring with Good quotes or Life quotes.

Art Quotes

Why people make it, and who it's for.

A recurring idea here is that film is not an elite pursuit reserved for scholars, but something meant to be watched plainly and directly. Continue exploring with Good quotes or Life quotes.

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