Motivational Quotes

Art

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

- Gogh, Vincent Van

Best Quotes about Art

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Riding, Laura

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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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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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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

Duke Ellington

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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 have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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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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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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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 greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Shakespeare, William

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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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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 is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes