Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

- Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

Best Quotes about Art

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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

William Baziotes

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

Updike, John

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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

Proverb

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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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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Paz, Octavio

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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

Yu Cao

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Midler, Bette

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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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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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen