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 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

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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

Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Piero Milani

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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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

Zola, Emile

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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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

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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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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Walt Whitman

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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