Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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

Zola, Emile

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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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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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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Elizabeth Aston

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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Jacob, Max

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

Warhol, Andy

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.