- Friendship
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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
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started out in independent films in the early '70s, we did everything for the love of art. It wasn't about money and stardom. That was what we were reacting against. You'd die before you'd be bought.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've realised that there's art in everything we do in London. Suddenly, a photo of two boys sitting on a wall in tracksuits with a dog can go online and be considered a sick photo. That's what we've done to London.
- Nov 07, 2020
Pirate radio is like street art.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.
- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the songs I write are full of power, and I'm suspecting it may come from my love for grotesque Renaissance art and the Eurovision Song Contest.
- Form
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- Nov 07, 2020
Across generations, the torch-bearers of Carnatic music have mastered the art form of connection.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020