Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Klee, Paul

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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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 moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Zola, Emile

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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

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Frye, Northrop

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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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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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.