Motivational Quotes

Art

A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

- Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

Best Quotes about Art

It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Joyce, James

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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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

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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

Eugene Delacroix

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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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

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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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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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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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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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

Zola, Emile

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

Berle, Adolf

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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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

Yu Cao

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.