Motivational Quotes

Art

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

- Edmond de Goncourt

Best Quotes about Art

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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

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

Ward Jenkins

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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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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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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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 creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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

Piet Mondrian

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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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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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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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

Bangs, Lester

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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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

Frye, Northrop

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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 ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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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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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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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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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