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

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

Joyce, James

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.

Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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

Al Capp

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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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 merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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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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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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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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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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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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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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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 is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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

Simonides

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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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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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 way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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

Morris, William

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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Art is the signature of civilizations.