Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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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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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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

Piero Milani

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

David Cronenberg

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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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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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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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Holyfield, Evander

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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

Klee, Paul

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

Gill, Eric

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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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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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.