Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Art

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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

Sand, George

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Schumann, Robert

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

David Cronenberg

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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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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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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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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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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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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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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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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Zola, Emile

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

Simonides

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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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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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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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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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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