Motivational Quotes

Art

I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

- Brooke McEldowney

Best Quotes about Art

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

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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

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

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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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.

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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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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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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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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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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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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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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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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

Piero Milani

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

Weil, Simone

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

Yu Cao

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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.

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo