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

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Schumann, Robert

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

George Tooker

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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

Capp, Al

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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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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

Updike, John

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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Eugene Delacroix

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

Chopra, Deepak

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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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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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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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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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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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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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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 biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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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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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell