Motivational Quotes

Art

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

- Edmond de Goncourt

Best Quotes about Art

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

Paz, Octavio

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Schnitzler, Arthur

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

Frye, Northrop

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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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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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Moses, Grandma

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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

Jackson Pollock

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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

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

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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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'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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

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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 more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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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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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

G. K. Chesterton

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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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.