Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

- Weil, Simone

Best Quotes about Art

Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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

Moses, Grandma

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

Dubuffet, Jean

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Piero Milani

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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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

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kael, Pauline

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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

Chopra, Deepak

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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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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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Andre Gide

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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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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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca