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

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

M. C. Richards

Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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

Zola, Emile

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Proverb

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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

Peri, Gabriel

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

Piet Mondrian

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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

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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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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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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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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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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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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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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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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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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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

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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