Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Berle, Adolf

Best Quotes about Art

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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

Saint-Victor, Richard of

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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

Piero Milani

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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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

Morris, William

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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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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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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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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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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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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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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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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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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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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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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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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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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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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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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Peri, Gabriel

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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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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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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