Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Brancusi, Constantin

Best Quotes about Art

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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 heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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

Motherwell, Robert

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Warhol, Andy

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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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

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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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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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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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

Frye, Northrop

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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

Kooning, Willem De

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

Eugene Delacroix

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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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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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Wilson, Robert