Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Art

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

G. K. Chesterton

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

Love can heal a broken heart.

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Andre Gide

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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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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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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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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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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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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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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

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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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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 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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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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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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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 art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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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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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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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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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, 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 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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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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

Piero Milani

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher