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

I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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

Kempis, Thomas

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Anderson, Judith

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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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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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Piero Milani

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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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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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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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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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

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

Mailer, Norman

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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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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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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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

Chopra, Deepak

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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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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul