Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

Keller, Helen

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

Thurber, James

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Zola, Emile

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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

Camus, Albert

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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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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.

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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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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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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

Wilson, Robert

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Novalis

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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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

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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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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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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