Motivational Quotes

Art

For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

- Saint-Victor, Richard of

Best Quotes about Art

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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

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

Schnitzler, Arthur

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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

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

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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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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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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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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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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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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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

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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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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo