Motivational Quotes

Art

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

- Apollinaire, Guillaume

Best Quotes about Art

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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

Burroughs, William S.

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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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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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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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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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.