Motivational Quotes

Art

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

- Cather, Willa

Best Quotes about Art

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

Piero Milani

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

10.

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

11.

What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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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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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

18.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Dubuffet, 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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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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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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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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

Warhol, Andy

29.

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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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

32.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Holyfield, Evander

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

Churchill, Winston

38.

The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

39.

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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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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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul