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

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

Murdoch, Iris

Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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

Castaneda, Carlos

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Capp, Al

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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

Camus, Albert

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

Piero Milani

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Frye, Northrop

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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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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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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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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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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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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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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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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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 art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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

Schumann, Robert

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