Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Arp, Jean

Best Quotes about Art

Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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

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

It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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

Riding, Laura

Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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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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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Edmond de Goncourt

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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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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

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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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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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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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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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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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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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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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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