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

Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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

Mailer, Norman

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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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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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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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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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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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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

Elizabeth Bowen

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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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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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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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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Paz, Octavio

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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

Jackson Pollock

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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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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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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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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Shakespeare, William

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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan