Motivational Quotes

Art

In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

- Bunuel, Luis

Best Quotes about Art

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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

Piero Milani

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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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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Love can heal a broken heart.

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Novalis

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

15.

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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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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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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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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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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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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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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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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

Moses, Grandma

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

33.

We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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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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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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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von