Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Anderson, Lindsay

Best Quotes about Art

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

Varese, Edward

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

Peri, Gabriel

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

William Baziotes

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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

Andre Gide

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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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

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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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

Gutzkow

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

Piet Mondrian

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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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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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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

Picasso, Pablo

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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

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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 moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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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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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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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

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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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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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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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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.