Best Fine Art Quotes
62 Fine Art quotes by 57 unique authors
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Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the penny press and…
— Barry S. Strauss
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The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world.
— Robert Crumb
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I have a Master's Degree in photography as a fine art, and I would call my work primarily conceptual. I don't carry cameras with me…
— Leonard Nimoy
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Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the formal aspects of…
— Shahzia Sikander
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Malevich, Lissitsky, Kandinsky, Tatlin, Pevsner, Rodchenko… all believed in the social role of art… Their works were like hinged doors, connecting activity with activity. Art…
— John Berger
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Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles-or who are looked upon with scorn as compromising "politicians"-are simply engaged in…
— John F. Kennedy
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My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create…
— Richard MacDonald
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Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at worst, repulsed. There…
— John Walford
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The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The interface may be…
— Robert Breault
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Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
— David Letterman
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I went to school for fine art. I'm a decent housepainter, but I'm a really good fine art painter.
— Kristin Bauer van Straten
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My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.
— Paul Getty
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Fine art is knowledge made visible.
— Gustave Courbet
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I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.
— Jerzy Kosinski
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I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
— Laurence J. Peter
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Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
— John Ruskin
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Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible,…
— John Wooden
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The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Conversing with children is a fine art.... An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or maybe discretion is a better…
— Miriam Toews
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What are you doing with the child?" I inquired cautiously. "I'm teachin' young James here the fine art of not pissing on his feet," he…
— Diana Gabaldon
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That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first…
— Christopher McDougall
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Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future ... eternal beauty.
— Masashi Kishimoto
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Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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