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The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.

Quotes by Baz Luhrmann

I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'

Quotes by Baz Luhrmann

Someone once accused me of trying to turn the sitcom into an art form, and I really believe that's what I was trying to do.

Quotes by Bea Arthur

I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!

Quotes by Bear Grylls

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

Quotes by Beatrice Wood

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.

Quotes by Beatrice Wood

I don't think music is the first thing I turn to. For me, I think visual art is more the thing. Sometimes when I've been doing music for a while, I can't really take any more in.

Quotes by Bat for Lashes

An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and...

Quotes by Bat for Lashes

When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing. My teachers encouraged my art work. When I was 9 or 10, I began learning piano and started...

Quotes by Bat for Lashes

All of the art that I love is about peeling back layers and delving into something that's in a subconscious or dream realm. People like Jan Svankmajer, or the artist Yoshimoto Nara, or David Lynch.

Quotes by Bat for Lashes

I'm really into California art from the '60s.

Quotes by Barry McGee

Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.

Quotes by Barry McGee

I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.

Quotes by Barry McGee

I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my studio. There are books around me all the time.

Quotes by Barry McGee

As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'

Quotes by Barry McGee

I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.

Quotes by Barry McGee

I love graffiti because it enables kids from every social extraction to do something that brings them closer to art, when they normally wouldn't be stimulated to be visually creative. Graffiti helps to develop an awareness of immediate expressive and...

Quotes by Barry McGee

I wasn't trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to learn this game.

Quotes by Barry McGee

I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.

Quotes by Barry McGee

I'm really into California art from the '60s. I like a lot of Bay Area artists, like Nathan Oliveira and Bruce Conner.

Quotes by Barry McGee

Frequently Asked Questions

What perspectives on art are covered in this collection?
A few distinct takes - being an artist "to the core" with a goal of elevating humanity, art shaping personal character, and two versions of the idea that film "is not the art of scholars but of illiterates" and should be watched straight on.
Is there a quote about art and personal identity?
Yes, two of them. One speaker calls themselves "an artist to the core," aiming to elevate humanity through their art. Another says their art has had a strong influence on the kind of person they are. For more on personal growth, see the Life page.
Is there a quote specifically about film as art?
Yes - in fact there are two closely related versions of the same idea, both arguing that film "is not the art of scholars but of illiterates" and should be looked at straight on rather than over-analyzed.
Is there anything here about art's broader purpose or ambition?
Yes, one quote frames the speaker's whole objective as using their talents "to elevate humanity through my art" - a big-picture statement about art's purpose. For more ambitious, purpose-driven quotes, check out the Great page.
Where can I read more about how art is perceived or valued?
For a closer look at how art and status intersect, see the Status page. For more general uplifting quotes, the Good page is also worth browsing.

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