Motivational Quotes

Art

In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

- Bunuel, Luis

Best Quotes about Art

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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

Schumann, Robert

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.

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Gide, Andre

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

Woodberry, George E.

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

Love can heal a broken heart.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Novalis

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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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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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Mann, Horace

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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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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

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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Morris, William

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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

Parker, Dorothy

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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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

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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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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 reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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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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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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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 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

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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

Kooning, Willem De