- Leadership
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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
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
- Become
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Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
- I Am
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Being a fan of pop music and rock bands, I am a reluctant convert into the art of instrumental rock music.
- Good
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Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer, the sculptor, the architect? Then why not the writer? Good poets, like good hybrid corn, are both born and made.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod embellishments - all these media and many other non-galleried forms have hosted and fostered esthetic delights that satisfy any rigorous definition of art.
- Noble
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It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form.
- God
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
- Emotion
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
- Astonish
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
- Feeling
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An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020