Motivational Quotes

Art

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

- Cather, Willa

Best Quotes about Art

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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 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

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Ward Jenkins

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

Frost, Robert

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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

Camus, Albert

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

Gutzkow

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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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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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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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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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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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

Morris, William

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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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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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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

Piero Milani

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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly