Motivational Quotes

Art

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Art

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

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Berle, Adolf

For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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

Schnitzler, Arthur

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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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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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

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

Gill, Eric

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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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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Duke Ellington

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

Moses, Grandma

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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 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

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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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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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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