Motivational Quotes

Art

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

- Barzun, Jacques

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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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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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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