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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
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
You really can't bring about anything new with art.
- Building
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.
- Developments
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Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus - the epochally influential German art, architecture, crafts, and design school that was founded in Goethe's sleepy hometown of Weimar in 1919.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a pandemic of retrogressive nationalism, regional separatism, and religious extremism.
- Perception
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- Nov 07, 2020
A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of 1932, a picaresque narrative that captivated many who hadn't the slightest inkling of what architects actually did.
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- Nov 07, 2020
All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the unpredictable revivals of interest in even the most obscure ones tend to reveal more about those who make revisionist assessments than about those who are being reassessed.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Avant-garde architects have never been able to depend on the support of the establishment, since the customary patrons of this most conservative and slowly moving art form have historically been resistant to innovation and experiment.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
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Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn.
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I had no idea when I went to college what I'd be doing. I took organic chemistry and did terribly, but I was good in English and art. I took many courses and participated in as many activities as I could. I learned a lot about every single thing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like art, photography, film - all that creativity.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
- Nov 07, 2020