Motivational Quotes

Art

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

- Berle, Adolf

Best Quotes about Art

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Ruskin, John

Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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

Piet Mondrian

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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

Truman, Harry S

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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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.

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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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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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

Zola, Emile

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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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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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

Camus, Albert

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Updike, John

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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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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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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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Proverb

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen