Motivational Quotes

Art

It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Art

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

Kooning, Willem De

It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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

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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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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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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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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

Duke Ellington

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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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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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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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

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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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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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Arp, Jean

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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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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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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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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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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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

Berle, Adolf

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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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