Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

- Cassady, Neal

Best Quotes about Art

There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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

Walt Whitman

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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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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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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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 consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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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

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Woodberry, George E.

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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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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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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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

Camus, Albert

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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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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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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

Holyfield, Evander

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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

Gill, Eric

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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso