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

I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

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

Isak Dineson

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

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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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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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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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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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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

Proverb

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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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

Novalis

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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

Joyce, James

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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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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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Riding, Laura

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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.