Motivational Quotes

Art

Balance is the enemy of art.

- Eyre, Richard

Best Quotes about Art

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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

Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Anderson, Judith

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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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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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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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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jacob, Max

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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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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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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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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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Moses, Grandma

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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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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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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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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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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