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

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Barenboim, Daniel

The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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

Zola, Emile

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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.