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

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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

If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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

Gill, Eric

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

Cather, Willa

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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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

Peri, Gabriel

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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

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Shakespeare, William

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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

Joyce, James

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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

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

Schumann, Robert

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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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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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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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

Proverb

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo