Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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

Ruckett

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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

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

Duke Ellington

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

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

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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Cioran, E. M.

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Capp, Al

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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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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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Frye, Northrop

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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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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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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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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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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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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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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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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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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

M. C. Richards

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert