Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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

Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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

As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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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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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Chopra, Deepak

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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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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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

Cioran, E. M.

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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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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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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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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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman