Motivational Quotes

Art

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Art

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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

Howe, Nathaniel

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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

Gill, Eric

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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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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 don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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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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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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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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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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

Ambrose Bierce

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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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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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Kooning, Willem De

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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)