Motivational Quotes

Art

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Art

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

It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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

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

Dubuffet, Jean

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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

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

Buckingham, Duke of

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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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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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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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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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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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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

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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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

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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

Morris, William

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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

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

Brancusi, Constantin

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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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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.