Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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

There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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

Edmond de Goncourt

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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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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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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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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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Pablo Picasso

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

Morris, William

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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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