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

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

Anderson, Judith

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

Jeff Melvoin

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

Pablo Picasso

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

Shakespeare, William

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jacob, Max

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

Klee, Paul

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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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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 heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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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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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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 brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Melville, Herman

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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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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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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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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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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

30.

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

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

32.

What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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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

39.

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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

Frye, Northrop

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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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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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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

Piero Milani

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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

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann