Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Art

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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.

Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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

Miguel de Cervantes

Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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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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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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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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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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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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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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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

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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

Riding, Laura

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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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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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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

Eugene Delacroix

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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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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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

Truman, Harry S

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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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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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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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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

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

Bellow, Saul

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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

Anderson, Judith

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