Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Jeff Melvoin

Best Quotes about Art

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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

Motherwell, Robert

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

David Cronenberg

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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

Holyfield, Evander

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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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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Morris, William

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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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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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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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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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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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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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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

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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Novalis

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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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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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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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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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

M. C. Richards

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

Eliot, T. S.