Motivational Quotes

Art

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

- Ciardi, John

Best Quotes about Art

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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

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

Riding, Laura

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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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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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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

West, Rebecca

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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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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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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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 great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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Love can heal a broken heart.

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von