Motivational Quotes

Art

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

- Kael, Pauline

Best Quotes about Art

Love can heal a broken heart.

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

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

Tynan, Kenneth

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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.

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

Parker, Theodore

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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.

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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

Frye, Northrop

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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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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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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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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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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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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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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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

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

Ambrose Bierce

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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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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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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

Cioran, E. M.

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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall