Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

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

Pascal, Blaise

It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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

Pablo Picasso

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

Truman, Harry S

As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Jackson Pollock

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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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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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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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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Morris, William

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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

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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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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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

West, Rebecca

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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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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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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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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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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

Kael, Pauline

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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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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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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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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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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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Balance is the enemy of art.