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

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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

Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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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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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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

Frye, Northrop

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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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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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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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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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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry