Motivational Quotes

Art

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

- E. M. Forster

Best Quotes about Art

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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

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

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

Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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

Al Capp

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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

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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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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

David Cronenberg

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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 final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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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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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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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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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