Motivational Quotes

Art

The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Art

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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

Ben Shahn

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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

Schnitzler, Arthur

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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

George Tooker

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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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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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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

Piet Mondrian

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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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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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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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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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 at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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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.