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

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

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

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

Varese, Edward

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Andre Gide

Cather, Willa

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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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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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Berle, Adolf

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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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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

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

Piero Milani

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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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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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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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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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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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

Parker, Dorothy

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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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

Truman, Harry S

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Cassady, Neal

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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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