Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Elizabeth Bowen

Best Quotes about Art

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

Tynan, Kenneth

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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

Lowell, James Russell

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.

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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

Simonides

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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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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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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

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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

Picasso, Pablo

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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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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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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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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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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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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 forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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

Joyce, James

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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Duke Ellington

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Alfred North Whitehead