Motivational Quotes

Art

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Art

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Cather, Willa

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

Zola, Emile

I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Cassady, Neal

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

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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 teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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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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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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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

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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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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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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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

Frye, Northrop

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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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.

Melville, Herman

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

Piet Mondrian

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Camus, Albert

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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Bangs, Lester

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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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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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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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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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish