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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Joyce, James

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

Novalis

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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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 art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Berle, Adolf

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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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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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 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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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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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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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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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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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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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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

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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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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Gide, Andre

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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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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne