Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Bangs, Lester

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Jackson Pollock

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

Lowell, James Russell

There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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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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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

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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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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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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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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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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 of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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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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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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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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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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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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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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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter