Motivational Quotes

Art

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

- George Tooker

Best Quotes about Art

The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ben Shahn

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Al Capp

What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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

Berle, Adolf

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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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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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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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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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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 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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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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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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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Andre Gide

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

48.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas