Motivational Quotes

Art

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- Anderson, Sparky

Best Quotes about Art

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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

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

Peri, Gabriel

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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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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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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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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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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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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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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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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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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 art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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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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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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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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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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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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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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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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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert