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

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

Andre Gide

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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

Wordsworth, William

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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 finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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

Simonides

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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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

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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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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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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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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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.

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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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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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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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

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille