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 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

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

George Tooker

Love can heal a broken heart.

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

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

Riding, Laura

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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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

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

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

David Cronenberg

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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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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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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

Eliot, T. S.

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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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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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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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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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