Motivational Quotes

Art

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.

Best Quotes about Art

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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

Elizabeth Bowen

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

David Cronenberg

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Jackson Pollock

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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

Bellow, Saul

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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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 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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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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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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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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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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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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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella