Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Buckingham, Duke of

Best Quotes about Art

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Truman, Harry S

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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

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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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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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Woodberry, George E.

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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Gill, Eric

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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