Best Fine Arts Sayings
109 Fine Arts quotes by 101 unique authors
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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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As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled…
— PJ Harvey
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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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I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
— Sue Grafton
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Every thought which enters the mind, every word we utter, every deed we perform, makes its impression upon the inmost fiber of our being and…
— Orison Swett Marden
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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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The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.
— Thomas Carlyle
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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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A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.
— Louis Nizer
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My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it…
— Mark Mothersbaugh
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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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I've always been a fine artist.
— Joey Skaggs
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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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I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and…
— James Spader
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I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.
— Catherine Deneuve
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I didn't get a Bachelor's degree - I got a Bachelor's of Fine Arts, which means I didn't have to take humanities, math, and stuff…
— Stephen Furst
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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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I'd like for people to be able to go to the universities and get a degree in fine arts-gastronomy.
— Julia Child
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High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.
— Finley Peter Dunne
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In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the…
— Ken Livingstone
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Financial firms are sending their back-office jobs overseas. But what do fine artists do? They create something new, unexpected, and delightful that changes the world.…
— Daniel H. Pink
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Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is.…
— Norman Rockwell
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Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
— David Letterman
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