Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

- Reinhardt, Ad

Best Quotes about Art

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

Schnitzler, Arthur

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

Piet Mondrian

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Jacob, Max

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

Love can heal a broken heart.

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Peri, Gabriel

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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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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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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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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

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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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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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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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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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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

Piero Milani

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei