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

O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Proust, Marcel

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Kael, Pauline

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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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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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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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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

16.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

17.

Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

18.

Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

19.

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

Piet Mondrian

20.

Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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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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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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

John F. Kennedy

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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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 people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Schumann, Robert

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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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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Capp, Al

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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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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

42.

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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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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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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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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