Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- David Cronenberg

Best Quotes about Art

What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Ambrose Bierce

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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

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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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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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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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

Driscoll, Louise

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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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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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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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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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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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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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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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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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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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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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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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

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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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