Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Bowen, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Art

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

Shaw, George Bernard

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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

Parker, Theodore

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Anderson, Bill

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Gide, Andre

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 choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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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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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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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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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 powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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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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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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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Frye, Northrop

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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

Klee, Paul

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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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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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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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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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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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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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