Motivational Quotes

Art

I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

- Jovovich, Milla

Best Quotes about Art

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Picasso, Pablo

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Bellow, Saul

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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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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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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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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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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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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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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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

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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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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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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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

Ben Shahn

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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

Updike, John

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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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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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

Jeff Melvoin

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De