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

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Camus, Albert

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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

Proverb

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

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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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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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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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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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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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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

22.

The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

28.

I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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

Brancusi, Constantin

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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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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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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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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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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No manager ever won no ballgames.