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

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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

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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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

George Tooker

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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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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 suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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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

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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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

M. C. Richards

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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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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Love can heal a broken heart.

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Riding, Laura

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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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

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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

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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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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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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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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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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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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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 that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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