Cass McCombs Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility.

  Cass McCombs

  Art, Action, Folks

• Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.

  Cass McCombs

  Art, Art Is, Humans

  Source: pitchfork.com

• Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best. To make it about the artist and to dwell upon biographical information can only make it singular, and I am really, really disgusted by that.

  Cass McCombs

  Art, Artist, Disgusted

  Source: pitchfork.com

• Thank god we don't know a lot about William Shakespeare or Moses or Homer or Lautréamont. These are the best guys we got, and their art is powerful because they're mysterious. Once biographical information contaminates your consciousness, it's impossible to erase it and look at someone's work the same way again.

  Cass McCombs

  Art, Powerful, Guy

  Source: pitchfork.com

• To me, craft work is the ultimate. Maybe I got this idea from the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, who was employed as a sculptor to the state and church, making coins and things. While he admired Michelangelo, he also made fun of his spiritual angst with art.

  Cass McCombs

  Spiritual, Art, Fun

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I think a master craftsman is someone who is unpretentious. He has a physical object in front of him and, while he works with a higher aim, he doesn't let his personality get in the way of his art. It's simply about the task at hand and to make it as functional and necessary to the world as he can.

  Cass McCombs

  Art, Thinking, Personality

  Source: pitchfork.com

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