Motivational Quotes

Art

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Art

[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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

Brancusi, Constantin

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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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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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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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 is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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

Wordsworth, William

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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Simonides

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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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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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Parker, Theodore

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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Proverb