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

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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Bellow, Saul

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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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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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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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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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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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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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Walt Whitman

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bellow, Saul

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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

Truman, Harry S

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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

Peri, Gabriel

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.