Motivational Quotes

Art

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Art

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cather, Willa

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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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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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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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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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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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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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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

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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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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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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 is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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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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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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