Motivational Quotes

Art

I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

- Brooke McEldowney

Best Quotes about Art

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

20.

Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

21.

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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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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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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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

25.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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

Eliot, T. S.

30.

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

Moses, Grandma

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

32.

Love can heal a broken heart.

33.

Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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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 writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

37.

I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

38.

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

Parker, Theodore

39.

I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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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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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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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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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

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

45.

What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.