Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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

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

There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Edmond de Goncourt

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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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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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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 the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

18.

Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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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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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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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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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Morris, William

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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes