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

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

Kael, Pauline

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

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

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

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

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

Brancusi, Constantin

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Simonides

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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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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Piero Milani

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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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

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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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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

29.

Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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

Moses, Grandma

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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

33.

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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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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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

39.

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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

Shakespeare, William

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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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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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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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

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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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

Parker, Dorothy