Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Art

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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.

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

Eliot, T. S.

I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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

Schnitzler, Arthur

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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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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 sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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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

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Piero Milani

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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

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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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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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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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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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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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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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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Yu Cao

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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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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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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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

Weil, Simone

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

Kronenberger, Louis