Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Driscoll, Louise

Best Quotes about Art

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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

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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 the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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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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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 torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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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

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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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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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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 True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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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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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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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

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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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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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

West, Rebecca

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin