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

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Proust, Marcel

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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 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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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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

Piet Mondrian

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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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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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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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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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

Bangs, Lester

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

Jacob, Max