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

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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

Tynan, Kenneth

What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Holyfield, Evander

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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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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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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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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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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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

Sand, George

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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

Picasso, Pablo

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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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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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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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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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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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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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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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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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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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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen