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

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

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

William Baziotes

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

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Kooning, Willem De

In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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

Novalis

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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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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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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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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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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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

Proverb

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Simonides

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Bible

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

Woodberry, George E.

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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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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.

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

Ovid

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry