Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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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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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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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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

William Baziotes

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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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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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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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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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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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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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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.