Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Art

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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

Eugene Delacroix

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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

Kempis, Thomas

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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

Novalis

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Sand, George

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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

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

Edmond de Goncourt

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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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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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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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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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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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

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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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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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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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 forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister