Motivational Quotes

Art

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Art

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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

West, Rebecca

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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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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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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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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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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 never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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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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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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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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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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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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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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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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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh