Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Art

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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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

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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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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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Kooning, Willem De

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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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 final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Joyce, James

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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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 choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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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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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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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.