Motivational Quotes

Art

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

- Bible

Best Quotes about Art

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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

Walt Whitman

What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Anderson, Bill

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

Jackson Pollock

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Peri, Gabriel

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

West, Rebecca

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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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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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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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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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 the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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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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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Berle, Adolf

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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray