Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Frye, Northrop

Best Quotes about Art

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

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

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

Anderson, Lindsay

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Dubuffet, Jean

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Gill, Eric

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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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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 best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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

Piet Mondrian

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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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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Truman, Harry S

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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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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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall