Motivational Quotes

Art

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

- Crowley, Aleister

Best Quotes about Art

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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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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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Moses, Grandma

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Driscoll, Louise

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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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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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

Frye, Northrop

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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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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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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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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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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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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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry