Motivational Quotes

Art

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Art

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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

The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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.

The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Novalis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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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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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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

Ben Shahn

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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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

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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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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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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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

David Cronenberg

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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

Al Capp

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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