Motivational Quotes

Art

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

- Barzun, Jacques

Best Quotes about Art

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Jackson Pollock

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.

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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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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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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

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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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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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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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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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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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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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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 heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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

Weil, Simone

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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

Proverb, Chinese

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Mailer, Norman

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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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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

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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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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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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

David Cronenberg

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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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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.

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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