Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Art

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

Miguel de Cervantes

Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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

Brown, John Mason

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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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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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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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

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

Klee, Paul

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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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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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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

Frost, Robert

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

Yu Cao

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.