Motivational Quotes

Art

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Anderson, Bill

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

Joyce, James

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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

Riding, Laura

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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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.

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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Simonides

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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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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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Schnitzler, Arthur

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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.

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne