Motivational Quotes

Art

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Best Quotes about Art

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Ionesco, Eugene

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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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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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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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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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Gide, Andre

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

Warhol, Andy

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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

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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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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on 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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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock