Motivational Quotes

Art

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

- Dali, Salvador

Best Quotes about Art

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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

Peri, Gabriel

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

Warhol, Andy

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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

Shakespeare, William

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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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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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.