Motivational Quotes

Art

What I dream of is an art of balance.

- Henri Matisse

Best Quotes about Art

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

Bangs, Lester

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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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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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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

Piero Milani

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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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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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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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 not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Schumann, Robert

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

Simonides

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

Moses, Grandma

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Warhol, Andy

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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

Picasso, Pablo

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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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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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy