Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Ovid

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

Barenboim, Daniel

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

Blackie, Professor

Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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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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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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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 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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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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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 never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Novalis

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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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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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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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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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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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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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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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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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

G. K. Chesterton

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John