Motivational Quotes

Art

Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

- Ginsberg, Allen

Best Quotes about Art

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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

Cather, Willa

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

The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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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

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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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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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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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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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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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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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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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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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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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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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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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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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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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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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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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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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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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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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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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.