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

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

Cather, Willa

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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

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

A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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

If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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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

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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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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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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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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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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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Andre Gide

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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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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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Piero Milani

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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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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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

Bangs, Lester

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

Jacob, Max