Motivational Quotes

Art

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

- Niko Stumpo

Best Quotes about Art

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Connolly, Cyril

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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

Ben Shahn

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

Shakespeare, William

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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

Capp, Al

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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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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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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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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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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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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Peri, Gabriel

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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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

Bangs, Lester

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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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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Diana, Princess of Wales