Motivational Quotes

Art

Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Art

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Arp, Jean

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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

Chopra, Deepak

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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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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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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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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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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

Brancusi, Constantin

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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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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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao