Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Bellow, Saul

Best Quotes about Art

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.

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

Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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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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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Schumann, Robert

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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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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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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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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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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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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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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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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

Morris, William

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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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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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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

Andre Gide

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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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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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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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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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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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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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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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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