Motivational Quotes

Art

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

- Blackie, Professor

Best Quotes about Art

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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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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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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

Truman, Harry S

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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

William Baziotes

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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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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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

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis