Motivational Quotes

Art

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

- French, Marilyn

Best Quotes about Art

Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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

In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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.

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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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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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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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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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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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

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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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

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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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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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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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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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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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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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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 forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Gill, Eric

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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

Yu Cao

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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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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

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Chopra, Deepak

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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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