Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Gide, Andre

Best Quotes about Art

There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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

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

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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

Ben Shahn

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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

West, Rebecca

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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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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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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 see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Novalis

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

Warhol, Andy

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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

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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

Eugene Delacroix

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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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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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

Moses, Grandma

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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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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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