Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Art

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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

Jackson Pollock

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Berle, Adolf

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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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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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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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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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

Simonides

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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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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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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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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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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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

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

Piero Milani

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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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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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

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

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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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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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.