Motivational Quotes

Art

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

- Edith Wharton

Best Quotes about Art

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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

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

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

Saint-Victor, Richard of

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Moses, Grandma

I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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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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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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

Ruckett

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

David Cronenberg

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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

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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

Simonides

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.