Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- David Cronenberg

Best Quotes about Art

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

A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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

Ben Shahn

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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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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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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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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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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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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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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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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 never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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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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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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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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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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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

Midler, Bette

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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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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 vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

William Baziotes

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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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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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?