Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Thurber, James

Best Quotes about Art

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

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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

Proverb, Chinese

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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

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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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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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

Parker, Theodore

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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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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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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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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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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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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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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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

Godard, Jean-Luc