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

The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Ciardi, John

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Jovovich, Milla

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

Piero Milani

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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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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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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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 head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Riding, Laura

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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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 no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

40.

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

41.

Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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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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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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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 for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo