Motivational Quotes

Art

It is either easy or impossible.

- Dali, Salvador

Best Quotes about Art

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Schumann, Robert

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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

Ruckett

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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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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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Walt Whitman

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Mann, Horace

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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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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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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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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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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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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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow