Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

Cather, Willa

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

Mailer, Norman

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

Kronenberger, Louis

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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

Simonides

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

Jacob, Max

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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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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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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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 object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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

Walt Whitman

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

Peri, Gabriel

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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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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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

Moses, Grandma

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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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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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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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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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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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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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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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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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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John