Motivational Quotes

Art

Balance is the enemy of art.

- Eyre, Richard

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

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

Kooning, Willem De

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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

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.

It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Piet Mondrian

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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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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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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Morris, William

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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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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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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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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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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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

Piero Milani

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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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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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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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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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

David Cronenberg

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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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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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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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

Holyfield, Evander