Motivational Quotes

Art

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Art

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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

Brancusi, Constantin

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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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 heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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

Wilson, Robert

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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

Elizabeth Bowen

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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

Shakespeare, William

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

David Cronenberg

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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.

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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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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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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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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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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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