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

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

In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Schumann, Robert

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Al Capp

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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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

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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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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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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

M. C. Richards

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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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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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

Joyce, James

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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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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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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince