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

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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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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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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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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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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

Yu Cao

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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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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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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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Jacob, Max

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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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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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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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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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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.