Motivational Quotes

Art

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Art

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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

Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Warhol, Andy

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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

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

Riding, Laura

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

Ward Jenkins

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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

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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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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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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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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Joyce, James

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