Motivational Quotes

Art

The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Art

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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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, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Riding, Laura

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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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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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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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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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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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

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

Truman, Harry S

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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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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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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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 essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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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

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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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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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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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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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

Paz, Octavio

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.