Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Art

I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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

Wilson, Robert

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Bible

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

Ciardi, John

You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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

Schumann, Robert

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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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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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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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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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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

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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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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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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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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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.

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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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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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Camus, Albert

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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 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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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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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

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Jackson Pollock

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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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

Shakespeare, William

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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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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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton