Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

- Amy Lowell

Best Quotes about Art

Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von