Motivational Quotes

Art

If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Best Quotes about Art

When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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

Anderson, Lindsay

There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Andre Gide

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

Brown, John Mason

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Love can heal a broken heart.

13.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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

Proverb

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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

Updike, John

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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

Duke Ellington

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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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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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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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

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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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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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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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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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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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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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry 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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Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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

G. K. Chesterton