Motivational Quotes

Art

When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

- Chagall, Marc

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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

Camus, Albert

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

Holyfield, Evander

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Berle, Adolf

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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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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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

Novalis

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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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

Truman, Harry S

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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

Joyce, James

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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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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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

Morris, William

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

David Cronenberg

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney