Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Peri, Gabriel

Best Quotes about Art

Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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

I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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

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

Moses, Grandma

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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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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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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.

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

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

Brancusi, Constantin

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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Schnitzler, Arthur

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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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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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, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Andre Gide

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.