Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Alfred North Whitehead

Best Quotes about Art

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

Warhol, Andy

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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

George Tooker

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

Connolly, Cyril

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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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 never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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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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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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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

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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

Paz, Octavio

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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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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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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

Morris, William

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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

Midler, Bette

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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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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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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