Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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

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

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

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

O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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

Edmond de Goncourt

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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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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

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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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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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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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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

Riding, Laura

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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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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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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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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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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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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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

Frye, Northrop

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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

Simonides

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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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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal