Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

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

Jeff Melvoin

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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

Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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

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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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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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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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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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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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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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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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 heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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

Berle, Adolf

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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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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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

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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

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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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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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

Moses, Grandma

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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

Roosevelt, Theodore