Motivational Quotes

Art

I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

- Zola, Emile

Best Quotes about Art

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

Churchill, Winston

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Edmond de Goncourt

What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

10.

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

11.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

12.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

13.

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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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

16.

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

Jackson Pollock

17.

It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

18.

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

Kael, Pauline

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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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

22.

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

24.

Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

25.

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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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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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

28.

What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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.

31.

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

32.

Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

33.

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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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

37.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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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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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

40.

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

41.

No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

46.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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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

48.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen