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

It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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

Bangs, Lester

The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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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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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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.

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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

Ward Jenkins

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

23.

Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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

Piet Mondrian

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

Shakespeare, William

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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.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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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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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

36.

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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

Camus, Albert

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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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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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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

Schumann, Robert

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

Kooning, Willem De

44.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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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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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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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