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Art Quotes by Antony Gormley
- We are not moving towards some kind of goal. We are at the goal, and it is changing with us. If art has any purpose,…
- Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.
- Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.
- Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive.
- Maybe this is a utopian view of art but I do believe that art can function as a vehicle, that it isn't just a cultural…
- I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st…
- I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and…
- Due to the failure of politics, which has become a process of middle-management, art has become one of the last open spaces to question core…
- Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other…
- Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful thing to do - making life flow more easily - but art confronts life, allowing it…
- Public money should be spent on art but through individuals not committees.
- The making of a whole person and the creation of true individuals can only happen by singing and dancing and making art.
More Art Quotes
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't… — Arthur Ashe
- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov