- 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
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You never know when contemporary art is going to insinuate itself into a normally art-free zone.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
Something happened when I was in elementary school. A Disney artist named Bruce McIntyre retired, and he had done drawings for 'Pinocchio' and 'Snow White' that was just classic stuff. He moved to the town I grew up in, Carlsbad, and he became a part-time art teacher at our elementary school.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a director, the biggest job is to discern the imperfections in emotional tone and then view it in the global picture of what you're trying to do, if that makes sense. It's a rhythm, like music is a rhythm or composition and art is a rhythm. Dialogue is a rhythm as well.
- Limits
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.
- Output
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- Nov 07, 2020
Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
- Exist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.
- Nov 07, 2020
Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020