Motivational Quotes

Art

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

- Erasmus, Desiderius

Best Quotes about Art

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

Ruskin, John

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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

Blackie, Professor

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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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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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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

Riding, Laura

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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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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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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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

Bellow, Saul

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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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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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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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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Joyce, James

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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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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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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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.