Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

- Bowen, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Art

As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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

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

Sand, George

Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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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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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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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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

Piero Milani

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jackson Pollock

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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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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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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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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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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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell