Motivational Quotes

Art

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

- France, Anatole

Best Quotes about Art

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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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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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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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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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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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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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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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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Love can heal a broken heart.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Gill, Eric

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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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 great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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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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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander