Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Art

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Cather, Willa

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Bangs, Lester

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

Jackson Pollock

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

Camus, Albert

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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

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

Brancusi, Constantin

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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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

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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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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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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

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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

Kael, Pauline

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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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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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb

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

Duke Ellington

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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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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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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

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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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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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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

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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders