Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Truman, Harry S

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Ovid

Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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

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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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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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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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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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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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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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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

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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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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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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

Proverb

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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

Warhol, Andy

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.