Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Tagore, Rabindranath

Best Quotes about Art

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

Kronenberger, Louis

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Kael, Pauline

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

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

The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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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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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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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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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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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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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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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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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Piero Milani

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo