Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Yu Cao

Best Quotes about Art

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Parker, Theodore

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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.

There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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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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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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

Driscoll, Louise

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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

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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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

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

Chopra, Deepak

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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

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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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

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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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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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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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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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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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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