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

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Kael, Pauline

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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

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

William Baziotes

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bangs, Lester

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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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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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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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

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

Frye, Northrop

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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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

Simonides

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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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.

Pound, Ezra

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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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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Capp, Al

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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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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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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Edmond de Goncourt

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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

Schumann, Robert

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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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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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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.