Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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

Anderson, Judith

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

Motherwell, Robert

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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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

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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

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

Schumann, Robert

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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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

Gill, Eric

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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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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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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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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 raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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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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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Chopra, Deepak

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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

Morris, William

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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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