Motivational Quotes

Art

There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

- Gutzkow

Best Quotes about Art

I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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

Brown, John Mason

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

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

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

Peri, Gabriel

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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

Joyce, James

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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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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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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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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

Zola, Emile

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Novalis

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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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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

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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

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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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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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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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Moses, Grandma

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Schumann, Robert

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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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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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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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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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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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.