Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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

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

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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

Moses, Grandma

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Novalis

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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 signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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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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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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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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

Yu Cao

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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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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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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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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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

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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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

Bangs, Lester

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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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