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

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Conrad, Joseph

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Brancusi, Constantin

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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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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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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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Kael, Pauline

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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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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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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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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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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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 teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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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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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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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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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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