Motivational Quotes

Art

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Art

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

Thurber, James

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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

Ovid

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

Wilson, Robert

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

John F. Kennedy

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

G. K. Chesterton

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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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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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Jovovich, Milla

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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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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

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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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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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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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Peri, Gabriel

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van