Motivational Quotes

Art

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Art

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

Anderson, Judith

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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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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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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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 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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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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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 so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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

23.

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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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 arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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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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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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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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

Ben Shahn

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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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