Motivational Quotes

Art

What is art but a way of seeing?

- Berger, Thomas

Best Quotes about Art

Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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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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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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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.

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Ambrose Bierce

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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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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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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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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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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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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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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