- Best
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is complicated, and art has the right to be complicated, too. I don't like films that simplify.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good script is like a work of art in itself. I've read hundreds of scripts, and good ones are very rare. If the writer has something to say, and a voice, and a plot that matches character, and an emotional trajectory that works, then I'd be an idiot to fool around with it. It's just that few scripts ever are like that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
- Patience
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I love most is the art, is making art, acting and being on set, and being a part of the process of making a movie.
- Glad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020