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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Klee, Paul

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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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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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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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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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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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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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.