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 distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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.

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

Ionesco, Eugene

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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

Riding, Laura

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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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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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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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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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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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 function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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

Warhol, Andy

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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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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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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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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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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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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

Walt Whitman

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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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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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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 finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Henry Ward Beecher