Motivational Quotes

Art

What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Art

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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

Berle, Adolf

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Parker, Dorothy

It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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

I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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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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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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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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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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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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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

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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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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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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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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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Al Capp

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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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 vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.