Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

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

Piet Mondrian

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

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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

Proverb, Chinese

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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

Truman, Harry S

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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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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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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

Moses, Grandma

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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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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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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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.

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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

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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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Love can heal a broken heart.

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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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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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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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 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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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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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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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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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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

Simonides

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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

Bangs, Lester

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William