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

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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

David Cronenberg

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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

Bellow, Saul

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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 is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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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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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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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

21.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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

Moses, Grandma

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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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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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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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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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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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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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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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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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

Kael, Pauline