Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Andre Gide

Best Quotes about Art

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

William Baziotes

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

Sand, George

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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

For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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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

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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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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

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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, 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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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

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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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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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

Piero Milani

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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

Duke Ellington

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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