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

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

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

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

Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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

Bangs, Lester

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Wilson, Robert

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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Midler, Bette

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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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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.

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Klee, Paul

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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 heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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

Joyce, James

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John