Motivational Quotes

Art

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

- Baryshnikov, Mikhail

Best Quotes about Art

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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

Connolly, Cyril

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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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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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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

Capp, Al

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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 artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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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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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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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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

Chopra, Deepak

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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

Eugene Delacroix

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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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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao