Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Zola, Emile

What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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

Sand, George

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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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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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

Wilson, Robert

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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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

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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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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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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

Frye, Northrop

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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

Camus, Albert

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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce