Motivational Quotes

Art

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

- John F. Kennedy

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dubuffet, Jean

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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

Camus, Albert

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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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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Simonides

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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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.

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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

Klee, Paul

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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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

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

G. K. Chesterton

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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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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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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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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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Ginsberg, Allen

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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Kennedy, John F.

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Joyce, James

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.