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

I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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

Brancusi, Constantin

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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

Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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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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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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

Proverb, Chinese

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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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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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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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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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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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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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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Proverb

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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

Joyce, James

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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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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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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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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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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Love can heal a broken heart.