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

If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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

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

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

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Midler, Bette

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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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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Yu Cao

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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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 I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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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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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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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

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

Edmond de Goncourt

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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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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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

Klee, Paul

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

Sand, George

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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

Riding, Laura

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson