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

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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

Anderson, Lindsay

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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

Simonides

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Piero Milani

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

Sand, George

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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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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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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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

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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 heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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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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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ginsberg, Allen

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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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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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador