Motivational Quotes

Art

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

- Bellow, Saul

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

Berle, Adolf

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

Piet Mondrian

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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

Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Piero Milani

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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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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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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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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

Picasso, Pablo

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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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 highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Varese, Edward

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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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.

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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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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 painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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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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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)