Motivational Quotes

Art

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

- John Singer Sargent

Best Quotes about Art

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Frye, Northrop

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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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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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

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 is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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

Eugene Delacroix

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

Proverb

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Morris, William

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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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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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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall