Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Art

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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

Ruckett

What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Walt Whitman

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

Ginsberg, Allen

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Jackson Pollock

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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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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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Motherwell, Robert

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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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 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

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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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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.