Motivational Quotes

Art

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

- Aristophanes

Best Quotes about Art

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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

Mann, Horace

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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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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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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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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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. 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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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Berle, Adolf

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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Moses, Grandma

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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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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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

Riding, Laura

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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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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green