Motivational Quotes

Art

Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

- Dworkin, Andrea

Best Quotes about Art

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ambrose Bierce

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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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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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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 is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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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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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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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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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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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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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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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 consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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

Bellow, Saul

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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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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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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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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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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 public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira