Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- West, Rebecca

Best Quotes about Art

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

Paz, Octavio

A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

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

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Driscoll, Louise

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

Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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

Arp, Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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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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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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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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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Piero Milani

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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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

Novalis

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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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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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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 the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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

Ruckett

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

Buckingham, Duke of

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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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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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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.