Motivational Quotes

Art

You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

- Jeff Melvoin

Best Quotes about Art

Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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

Jacob, Max

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Ciardi, John

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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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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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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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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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Parker, Dorothy

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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

Piet Mondrian

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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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

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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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 eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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

Joyce, James

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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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 raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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

Warhol, Andy

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Kael, Pauline

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes