Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Piero Milani

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Kael, Pauline

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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

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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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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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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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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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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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 painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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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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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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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

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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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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 is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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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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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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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 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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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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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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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall