Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Joseph Chilton Pearce

Best Quotes about Art

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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

Cather, Willa

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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

John F. Kennedy

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Piero Milani

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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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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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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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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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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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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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Berle, Adolf

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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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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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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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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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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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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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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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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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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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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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister