Motivational Quotes

Art

If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Best Quotes about Art

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

Ionesco, Eugene

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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

Blackie, Professor

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Duke Ellington

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

Peri, Gabriel

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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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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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

Zola, Emile

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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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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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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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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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.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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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 object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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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 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 the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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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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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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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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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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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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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

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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck