Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is a form of catharsis.

- Parker, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Art

Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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

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

Novalis

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

Jackson Pollock

The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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

Cather, Willa

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

Jacob, Max

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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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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

22.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

25.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

28.

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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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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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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

Ovid

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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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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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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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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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