Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Art

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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

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

I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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 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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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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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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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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

Peri, Gabriel

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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

39.

Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Berle, Adolf

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

Ward Jenkins

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.