- Crayons
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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
- Exaltation
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- Nov 07, 2020
My art is a disciplined high dive - high soar, simultaneous & polychromous, an exaltation of the verbal-visual... my dialogue.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ruskin's concern for art education applied to the development of the power of the hand and eye for everyone.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you grow up being taught to worship, whatever that means, there is an array of body-rich symbols: tears, blood, crucifixion, the stations of the cross, transubstantiation... Faith is a belief in something that is irrational, and so to have faith, there is some correlation there with the belief in the art.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people think of public art as something the public decides, it's impossible to make anything of substance.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and perpetrated to destroy the rights of man. In this great struggle, every crime has been rewarded and every virtue has been punished.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art.
- Beast
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- Nov 07, 2020