Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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 function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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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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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Ambrose Bierce

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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 arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Buckingham, Duke of

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

Brown, John Mason

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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

Piero Milani

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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Moses, Grandma

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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