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

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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

Edmond de Goncourt

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gide, Andre

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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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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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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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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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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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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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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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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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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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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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

Bangs, Lester

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

Morris, William

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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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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Warhol, Andy

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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

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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador