Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Art

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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

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

Cather, Willa

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Ambrose Bierce

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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

Jackson Pollock

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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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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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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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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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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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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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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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 eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Eugene Delacroix

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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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 heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Piet Mondrian

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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

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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

Chopra, Deepak

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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