Motivational Quotes

Art

I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

- Charles Rosin

Best Quotes about Art

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

Novalis

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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

Yu Cao

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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

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

Truman, Harry S

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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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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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 great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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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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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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

Joyce, James

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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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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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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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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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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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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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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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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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

Sand, George

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.