Motivational Quotes

Art

We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Art

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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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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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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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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

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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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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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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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

Shakespeare, William

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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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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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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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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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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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 heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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