Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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

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

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

Varese, Edward

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Moses, Grandma

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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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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

23.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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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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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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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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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green