Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Varese, Edward

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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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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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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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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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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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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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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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

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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

Camus, Albert

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

Eugene Delacroix

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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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 hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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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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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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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

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Piet Mondrian

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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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 for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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

Berle, Adolf

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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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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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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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean