Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Art

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Mann, Horace

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

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Jeff Melvoin

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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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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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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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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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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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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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.

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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

Berle, Adolf

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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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 aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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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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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela