Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Apollinaire, Guillaume

Best Quotes about Art

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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

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

Berle, Adolf

O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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

Churchill, Winston

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Zola, Emile

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Chopra, Deepak

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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

Moses, Grandma

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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Gide, Andre

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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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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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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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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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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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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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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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