Motivational Quotes

Art

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

- Frye, Northrop

Best Quotes about Art

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Simonides

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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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

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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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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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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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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

Yu Cao

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Anderson, Judith

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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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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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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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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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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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 are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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

Piero Milani