Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Isak Dineson

Best Quotes about Art

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

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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

Keller, Helen

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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

Simonides

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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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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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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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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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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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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

Kael, Pauline

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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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 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

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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

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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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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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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

Churchill, Winston

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Moses, Grandma

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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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

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace