Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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

Warhol, Andy

What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Jackson Pollock

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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

Eugene Delacroix

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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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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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

Motherwell, Robert

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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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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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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