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

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

West, Rebecca

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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.

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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

Cather, Willa

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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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

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

Parker, Theodore

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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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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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

Simonides

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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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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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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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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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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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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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Eugene Delacroix

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

G. K. Chesterton

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John