Motivational Quotes

Art

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

- Crowley, Aleister

Best Quotes about Art

Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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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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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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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

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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 vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Berle, Adolf

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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

Proverb

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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 a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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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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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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

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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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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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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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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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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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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