Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Frye, Northrop

Best Quotes about Art

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

M. C. Richards

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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 art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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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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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mann, Horace

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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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

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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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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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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

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

Proverb

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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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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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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

Frost, Robert

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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

Camus, Albert

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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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