Motivational Quotes

Art

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

- Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Best Quotes about Art

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

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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.

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

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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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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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

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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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 way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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

Woodberry, George E.

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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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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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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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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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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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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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Piero Milani

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise