Motivational Quotes

Art

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

- Chandler, Raymond

Best Quotes about Art

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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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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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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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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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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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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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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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 distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Schumann, Robert

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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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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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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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Berle, Adolf