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I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old.

Quotes by Robert Indiana

My art is a disciplined high dive - high soar, simultaneous & polychromous, an exaltation of the verbal-visual... my dialogue.

Quotes by Robert Indiana

The whole thrust of modern art, as far as I understand it, is expanding the role of the artist as a kind of esthetician, someone who actually spends his time, is trained in a way to deal with qualities.

Quotes by Robert Irwin

Gardening always has been an art, essentially.

Quotes by Robert Irwin

Not to make too much of a claim for poetry, but this is a question that goes to the moral heart of the business of any art: 'How do you see the world, and what right do you have to...

Quotes by Robert Hass

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

Quotes by Robert Henri

Ruskin's concern for art education applied to the development of the power of the hand and eye for everyone.

Quotes by Robert Hewison

When you grow up being taught to worship, whatever that means, there is an array of body-rich symbols: tears, blood, crucifixion, the stations of the cross, transubstantiation... Faith is a belief in something that is irrational, and so to have...

Quotes by Robert Gober

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

Quotes by Robert Gottlieb

If people think of public art as something the public decides, it's impossible to make anything of substance.

Quotes by Robert Graham

Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and perpetrated to destroy the rights of man. In this great struggle, every crime has been rewarded and every...

Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song.

Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and...

Quotes by Robert Fitzgerald

Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art.

Quotes by Robert Fortune

I was looking at the work of the New York street artists and then discovering Basquiat and Haring after that and seeing how the contemporary art scene was, and then going back into Warhol and all that was happening in...

Quotes by Robert Del Naja

I think the problem with the art market and the art scene is that it is its own beast. It thrives and breathes and defecates independently of the artist.

Quotes by Robert Del Naja

This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in...

Quotes by Robert Delaunay

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

Quotes by Robert Delaunay

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

Quotes by Robert Delaunay

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

Quotes by Robert Delaunay

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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