Motivational Quotes

Art

Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

- Ballard, J. G.

Best Quotes about Art

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

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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

A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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

Churchill, Winston

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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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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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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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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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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

Moses, Grandma

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Camus, Albert

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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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