Motivational Quotes

Art

I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

- Charles Rosin

Best Quotes about Art

No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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

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

Klee, Paul

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

Camus, Albert

Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Frye, Northrop

Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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

Thurber, James

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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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

Kael, Pauline

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Pascal, Blaise

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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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

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

Peri, Gabriel

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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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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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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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

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

Duke Ellington

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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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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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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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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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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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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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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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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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