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 artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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.

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

Driscoll, Louise

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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

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

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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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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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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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

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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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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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Klee, Paul

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

David Cronenberg

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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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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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

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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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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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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 distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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

Joyce, James

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

Churchill, Winston

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.