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

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

Duke Ellington

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

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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

G. K. Chesterton

Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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

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

Shakespeare, William

On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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

Moses, Grandma

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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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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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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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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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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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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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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

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

M. C. Richards

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul