Motivational Quotes

Art

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

- Hockney, David

Best Quotes about Art

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Parker, Theodore

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Driscoll, Louise

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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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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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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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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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

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

Gutzkow

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Brancusi, Constantin

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Piero Milani

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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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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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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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

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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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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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