Motivational Quotes

Art

The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

- Howe, Nathaniel

Best Quotes about Art

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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

Kael, Pauline

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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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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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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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

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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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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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

Frye, Northrop

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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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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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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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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Moses, Grandma