Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Jacob, Max

Best Quotes about Art

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

M. C. Richards

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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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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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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

Jacob, Max

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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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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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

Jeff Melvoin

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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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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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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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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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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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan