Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Art

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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 the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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

Wordsworth, William

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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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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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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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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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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

M. C. Richards

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Proverb

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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

Midler, Bette

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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

Updike, John

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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

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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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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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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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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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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

Zola, Emile