Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Art

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

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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

William Baziotes

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

Cather, Willa

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Eugene Delacroix

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Chopra, Deepak

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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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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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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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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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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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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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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

Morris, William

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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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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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John