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

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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

Updike, John

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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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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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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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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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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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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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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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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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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

Mailer, Norman

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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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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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

Yu Cao

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

Klee, Paul

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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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 is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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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