Motivational Quotes

Art

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

- Joseph Chilton Pearce

Best Quotes about Art

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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

Paz, Octavio

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

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Ionesco, Eugene

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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

Schumann, Robert

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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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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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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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 the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Duke Ellington

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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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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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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

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Moses, Grandma

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste