Motivational Quotes

Art

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

- Gandhi, Indira

Best Quotes about Art

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brown, John Mason

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Jacob, Max

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

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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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

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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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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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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Camus, Albert

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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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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Joyce, James

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

Eugene Delacroix

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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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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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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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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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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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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

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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord