Motivational Quotes

Art

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.

Best Quotes about Art

What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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

Kronenberger, Louis

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Lowell, James Russell

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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

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

Camus, Albert

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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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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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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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

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Einstein, Albert

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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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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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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Simonides

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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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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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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

Berle, Adolf

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston