Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Capp, Al

Best Quotes about Art

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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

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.

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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

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

Blackie, Professor

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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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

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

Warhol, Andy

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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

Holyfield, Evander

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Cather, Willa

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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas