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

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Motherwell, Robert

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Frye, Northrop

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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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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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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 eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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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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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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.

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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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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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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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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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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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

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.