Motivational Quotes

Art

As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

- Bayley, Stephen

Best Quotes about Art

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

Jovovich, Milla

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Schumann, Robert

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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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 highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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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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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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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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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Morris, William

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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

Chopra, Deepak

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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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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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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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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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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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul