Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Capp, Al

Best Quotes about Art

The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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

Ward Jenkins

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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

Warhol, Andy

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Peri, Gabriel

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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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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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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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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

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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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

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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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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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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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

Midler, Bette

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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

Ruskin, John

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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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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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian