Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

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.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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

Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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

Ovid

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

Duke Ellington

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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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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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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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, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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

Bangs, Lester

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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

Piet Mondrian

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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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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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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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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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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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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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

David Cronenberg