Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Art

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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

Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Gutzkow

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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

Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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

Novalis

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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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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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

Proverb, Chinese

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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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

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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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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

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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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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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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.

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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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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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