Motivational Quotes

Art

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Art

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

Brown, John Mason

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

Dubuffet, Jean

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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

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.

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Elizabeth Bowen

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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 public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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

Proverb

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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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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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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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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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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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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.