Motivational Quotes

Art

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

- Drummond, John

Best Quotes about Art

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

Ginsberg, Allen

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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.

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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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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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Riding, Laura

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gide, Andre

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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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

Proverb

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Zola, Emile

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir