Motivational Quotes

Art

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

- M. C. Richards

Best Quotes about Art

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

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Peri, Gabriel

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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

Driscoll, Louise

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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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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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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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Walt Whitman

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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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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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

28.

What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Piet Mondrian

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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 reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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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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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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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

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo