Motivational Quotes

Art

O, had I but followed the arts!

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Art

As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Barenboim, Daniel

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

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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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

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Peri, Gabriel

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

Buckingham, Duke of

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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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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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

Blackie, Professor

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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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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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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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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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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

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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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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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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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira