Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- David Cronenberg

Best Quotes about Art

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

Lowell, James Russell

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Cather, Willa

Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Elizabeth Bowen

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

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.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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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 function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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 heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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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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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Gutzkow

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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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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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

Joyce, James

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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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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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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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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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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold