Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

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

Cather, Willa

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

Schumann, Robert

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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

Berle, Adolf

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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

Ovid

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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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 is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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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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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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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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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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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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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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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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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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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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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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

West, Rebecca

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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

Piet Mondrian

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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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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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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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