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

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

Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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

Jovovich, Milla

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

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

Joyce, James

Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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

Camus, Albert

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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

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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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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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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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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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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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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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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Barenboim, Daniel

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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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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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Blackie, Professor

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It is either easy or impossible.