Motivational Quotes

Art

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

- Wilson, Robert

Best Quotes about Art

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ovid

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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

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

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Churchill, Winston

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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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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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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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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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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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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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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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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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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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

Duke Ellington

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Midler, Bette

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

Schumann, Robert

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

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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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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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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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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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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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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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y