Motivational Quotes

Art

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

- Frida Kahlo

Best Quotes about Art

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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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

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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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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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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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

M. C. Richards

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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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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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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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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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Ambrose Bierce

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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