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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
- Material
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- Nov 07, 2020
You begin with the possibilities of the material.
- Empty
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- Nov 07, 2020
An empty canvas is full.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
As income from work has become more concentrated in America, the super rich have invested in businesses, real estate, art, and other assets. The income from these assets is now concentrating even faster than income from work.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or wedding, looking at a roomful of people moving their bodies around in time to what I was doing. There was a piano player, a bass player, a drummer, and my breath making the melody.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling some lines by memory.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a lot of people, well-meaning teaching has made poetry seem arcane, difficult, a kind of brown-knotting medicine that might be good for you but doesn't taste so good. So I tried to make a collection of poetry that would be fun. And that would bring out poetry as an art, rather than the challenge to say smart things.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry its property the way in some countries there's a snob value to the art.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.
- Layer
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- Nov 07, 2020