Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Art

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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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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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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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

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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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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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, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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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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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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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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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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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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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard