Motivational Quotes

Art

What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Art

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

Jovovich, Milla

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

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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

West, Rebecca

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

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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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

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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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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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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

Brancusi, Constantin

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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

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Yu Cao

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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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 objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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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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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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

Berle, Adolf