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

Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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

Camus, Albert

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

Buckingham, Duke of

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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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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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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

Morris, William

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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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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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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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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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

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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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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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

40.

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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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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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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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.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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It is either easy or impossible.