
Top 13 Art Borrowing Quotes
#1. To write without any awareness of a tradition you are trying to become a part of would be self-defeating. Every artist alive responds to the history of his or her art - borrowing, stealing, rebelling against, and building on what other artists have done.
Dorianne Laux
#2. As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.
Oscar Wilde
#3. Although anything can happen when under the influence of ice water.
Kat Dennings
#4. But a man? He'll make it clear that he stands between his woman and the world, no matter what the consequences are. And then he'll prove it.
Nicole Jacquelyn
#5. The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.
J.G. Holland
#6. I never dreamed I would want to be or become a financial advisor.
Willie Aames
#7. We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
#8. I think old age is nature's way of preparing us for death, making us more willing to take our leave of this world.
Terry Goodkind
#9. Perhaps art criticism cannot be reformed in a logical sense because it was never well-formed in the first place. Art criticism has long been a mongrel among academic pursuits, borrowing whatever it needed from other fields ...
James Elkins
#10. We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction.
Max Bill
#11. There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer.
John Green
#12. I don't believe in originality in art. I think we exist on this earth to inspire each other, through our actions, through our deeds, and through who we are. We're always borrowing.
Bill Viola
#13. I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women's rights; rather, I am focusing on women to be independent to fight for themselves.
Malala Yousafzai
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