Motivational Quotes

Art

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

- Barzun, Jacques

Best Quotes about Art

Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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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 great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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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 moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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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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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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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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

Peri, Gabriel

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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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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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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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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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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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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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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume