Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Art

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

Truman, Harry S

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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

Pascal, Blaise

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

10.

Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

11.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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 function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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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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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

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

26.

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

Morris, William

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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

Andre Gide

30.

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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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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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

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

35.

Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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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 public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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

Einstein, Albert

45.

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

49.

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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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.