Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

- Grass, Gunther

Best Quotes about Art

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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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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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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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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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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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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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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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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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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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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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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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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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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

Updike, John

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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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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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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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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.