Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Eugene Delacroix

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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

Duke Ellington

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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

Wilson, Robert

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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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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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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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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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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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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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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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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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

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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

Peri, Gabriel

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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

Joyce, James

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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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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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

Riding, Laura

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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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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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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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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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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Emerson, Ralph Waldo