Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Art

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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.

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

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

Walt Whitman

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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

Brown, John Mason

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

The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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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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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Wordsworth, William

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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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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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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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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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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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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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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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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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

G. K. Chesterton

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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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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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.