Motivational Quotes

Art

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

- France, Anatole

Best Quotes about Art

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

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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

M. C. Richards

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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

Paz, Octavio

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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

Shakespeare, William

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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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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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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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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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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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Parker, Dorothy

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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

G. K. Chesterton

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Camus, Albert

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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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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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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

Beecher, Henry Ward