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

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Chopra, Deepak

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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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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 in drawing the line somewhere.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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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 True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

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

Jeff Melvoin

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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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

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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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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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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

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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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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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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.