Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Apollinaire, Guillaume

Best Quotes about Art

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

Gide, Andre

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

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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.

The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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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, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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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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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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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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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

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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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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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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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

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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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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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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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 heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson