Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

- Edith Wharton

Best Quotes about Art

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Driscoll, Louise

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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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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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Edith Wharton

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Kennedy, John F.

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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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

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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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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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.