Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Art

I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

George Tooker

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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

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

Gutzkow

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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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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

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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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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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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

20.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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

Zola, Emile

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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.

26.

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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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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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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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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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