Motivational Quotes

Art

It is either easy or impossible.

- Dali, Salvador

Best Quotes about Art

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Piero Milani

What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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

Brown, John Mason

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

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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 great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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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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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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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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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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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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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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