Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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

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

Peri, Gabriel

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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

Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Melville, Herman

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.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

M. C. Richards

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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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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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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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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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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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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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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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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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

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Jeff Melvoin

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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

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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

Zola, Emile

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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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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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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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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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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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 is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Novalis

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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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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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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord