Motivational Quotes

Art

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Art

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

Proverb

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 the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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

Jeff Melvoin

If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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

Anderson, Judith

11.

What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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

Blackie, Professor

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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

Piet Mondrian

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

32.

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

Zola, Emile

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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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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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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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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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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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

Gill, Eric

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

Shakespeare, William

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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

Pablo Picasso

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

Klee, Paul

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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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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides