Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Frye, Northrop

Best Quotes about Art

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

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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

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 an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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

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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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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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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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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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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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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Klee, Paul

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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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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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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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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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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

Jacob, Max

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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Peri, Gabriel

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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