Motivational Quotes

Art

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Art

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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

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.

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

Jacob, Max

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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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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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

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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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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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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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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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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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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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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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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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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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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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

Jeff Melvoin

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark