Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Apollinaire, Guillaume

Best Quotes about Art

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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

Weil, Simone

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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

Midler, Bette

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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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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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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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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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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 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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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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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.