Motivational Quotes

Art

It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

- Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

Best Quotes about Art

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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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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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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

Riding, Laura

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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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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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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

Cather, Willa

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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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

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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 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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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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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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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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

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

Jackson Pollock