Motivational Quotes

Art

It is either easy or impossible.

- Dali, Salvador

Best Quotes about Art

At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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

Murdoch, Iris

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Shakespeare, William

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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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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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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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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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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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

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