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

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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

Anderson, Judith

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Ginsberg, Allen

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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

Eliot, T. S.

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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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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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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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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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

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

Riding, Laura

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

Zola, Emile

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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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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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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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 say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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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 True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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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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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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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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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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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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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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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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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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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

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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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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William