Motivational Quotes

Art

The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

- Bangs, Lester

Best Quotes about Art

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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

Frye, Northrop

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Updike, John

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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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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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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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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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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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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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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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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

Rosenberg, Harold