Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

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

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Frye, Northrop

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

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Riding, Laura

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Moses, Grandma

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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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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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

Barenboim, Daniel

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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

Al Capp

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van