Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Art

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

The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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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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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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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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

Frye, Northrop

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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

Duke Ellington

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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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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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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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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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

Ginsberg, Allen

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)