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

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

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

Camus, Albert

I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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

Bangs, Lester

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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

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

Connolly, Cyril

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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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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

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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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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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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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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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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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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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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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Morris, William

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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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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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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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

Chopra, Deepak

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack