Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

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

Bellow, Saul

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

Joyce, James

Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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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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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Piero Milani

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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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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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

Moses, Grandma

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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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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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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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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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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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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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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo