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

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

G. K. Chesterton

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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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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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Klee, Paul

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Thurber, James

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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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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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Joyce, James

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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

Gutzkow

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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