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

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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

Ginsberg, Allen

Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Love can heal a broken heart.

There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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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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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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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 a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Shakespeare, William

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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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 teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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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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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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

Riding, Laura

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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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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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

Novalis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Duke Ellington

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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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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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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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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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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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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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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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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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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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis