Motivational Quotes

Art

Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Art

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

Ruskin, John

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 is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Cassady, Neal

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

Kooning, Willem De

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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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

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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

Zola, Emile

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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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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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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

Midler, Bette

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Proverb

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry 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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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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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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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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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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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales