Motivational Quotes

Art

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

- Chopra, Deepak

Best Quotes about Art

Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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

Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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

Baudelaire, Charles

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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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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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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

Joyce, James

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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.

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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

Midler, Bette

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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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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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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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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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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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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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, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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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