Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Brancusi, Constantin

Best Quotes about Art

What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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

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

Piero Milani

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

Peri, Gabriel

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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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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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Updike, John

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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Arp, Jean

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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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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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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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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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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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