- Laugh
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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
- Idiot
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
- Women
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.
- Sex
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- Nov 07, 2020
My very first gig was with the Sex Pistols, and it was also our first-ever gig. It was a very short set, and it was at Saint Martins College of Art in 1975. We were opening up for a band called Bazooka Joe, and their bass player at the time was Adam Ant, who went on to form Adam and the Ants.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
We go see theater, we take in art, because it makes us feel.
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Directing is a tremendous art.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
My undergraduate degree was in art history! Raising money for Chipotle was really my MBA. The money for my first restaurant came from my dad, the second from mostly cash flow. The third was an SBA loan. After my dad invested $1.5 million to open a few more, he suggested I raise the money myself for the experience.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainly, in college, I had no idea what I wanted to do, I studied art history and had a great time, but I didn't have any sort of career aspirations.
- Course
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- Nov 07, 2020
Condemning art as manipulative is a non sequitur, of course. All art is manipulative.
- Darkness
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- Nov 07, 2020
For thousands of years, we've insisted that art can make us better people. Unless a brief can be fashioned that, by its very nature, art appeals only to the best in people and never the darkness, which defies both logic and intuition, then we have to acknowledge that art can make some of us worse.
- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pablo Picasso, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Hemingway, Mel Gibson, Lou Reed, Norman Mailer, Vanessa Redgrave, Van Morrison - each is distinguished by controversies unrelated to his or her art; by many accounts, some of them are not nice people at all.
- Ego
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- Nov 07, 2020
Among the mysteries of the creative ego is how the transcendence of what artists do is their own response to the darkness of who they are, and the same personal darkness that is at odds with the art is what propels artists to the light of what they create.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't go to film school; I studied fine art - I learned how to be a filmmaker on everybody else's money.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020