Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Art

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

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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

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

Warhol, Andy

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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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 for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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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

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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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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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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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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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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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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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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

Miguel de Cervantes