Motivational Quotes

Art

I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

- Jovovich, Milla

Best Quotes about Art

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.

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Love can heal a broken heart.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Ambrose Bierce

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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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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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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Piet Mondrian

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Parker, Theodore

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

David Cronenberg

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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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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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince