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

Tynan, Kenneth

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

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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

Bible

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

Capp, Al

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

Blackie, Professor

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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Carter, Angela

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Warhol, Andy

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

M. C. Richards

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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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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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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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Godard, Jean-Luc