Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Art

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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 artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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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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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Midler, Bette

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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

Parker, Theodore

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

Camus, Albert

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Frost, Robert

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Walt Whitman

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Piero Milani

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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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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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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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