Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

- Gill, Eric

Best Quotes about Art

You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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

I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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

Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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

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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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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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 more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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

Weil, Simone

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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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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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Brown, John Mason

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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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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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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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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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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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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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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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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

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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Camus, Albert

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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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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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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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

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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