Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Jeff Melvoin

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

Keller, Helen

Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Zola, Emile

Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Ionesco, Eugene

Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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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 final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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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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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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 people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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

Dubuffet, Jean