Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Dubuffet, Jean

Best Quotes about Art

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Morris, William

Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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

There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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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 artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Ginsberg, Allen

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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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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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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

Camus, Albert

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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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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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

Jackson Pollock

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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