Motivational Quotes

Art

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Art

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.

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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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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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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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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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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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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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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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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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 essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

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

Ginsberg, Allen

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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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

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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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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

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