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

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

M. C. Richards

Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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

Cather, Willa

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

In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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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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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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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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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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

Churchill, Winston

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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

Gill, Eric

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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

Duke Ellington

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma