Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Art

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Alfred North Whitehead

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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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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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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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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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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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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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Simonides

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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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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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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

David Cronenberg

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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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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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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

Piet Mondrian

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad