Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

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

William Baziotes

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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

Ambrose Bierce

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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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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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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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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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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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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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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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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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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

Morris, William

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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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

Frye, Northrop

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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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

Klee, Paul

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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Paz, Octavio

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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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

Novalis

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

Simonides

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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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.