Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Bangs, Lester

Best Quotes about Art

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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

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

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

Waugh, Evelyn

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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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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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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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Mailer, Norman

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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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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.

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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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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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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

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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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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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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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Moses, Grandma

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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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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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

Joyce, James

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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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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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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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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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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

Paz, Octavio

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von