Motivational Quotes

Art

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.

Best Quotes about Art

The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Blackie, Professor

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

Brown, John Mason

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

Kennedy, John F.

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

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

Bangs, Lester

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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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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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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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

Duke Ellington

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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.

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

Klee, Paul

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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

Piero Milani

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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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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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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

Novalis

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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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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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Keller, Helen

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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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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn