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

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

Miguel de Cervantes

When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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

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

Parker, Theodore

O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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.

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

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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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.

Chagall, Marc

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Anderson, Judith

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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, 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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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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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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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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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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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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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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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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

Bangs, Lester

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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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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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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

Jacob, Max

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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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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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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.