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

I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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 hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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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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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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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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

Cassady, Neal

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

Jacob, Max

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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.)

Parker, Dorothy

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

Gide, Andre

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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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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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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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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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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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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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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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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

Woodberry, George E.