Motivational Quotes

Art

The heart will break, but broken live on.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Art

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

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

Cather, Willa

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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

Brancusi, Constantin

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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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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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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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

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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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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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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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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Bangs, Lester

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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

Duke Ellington

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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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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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John