Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Art

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

Peri, Gabriel

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

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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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 focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Driscoll, Louise

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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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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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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

Novalis

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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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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.

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Morris, William

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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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.