Motivational Quotes

Art

Art, that great undogmatized church.

- Key, Ellen

Best Quotes about Art

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

David Cronenberg

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

Anderson, Bill

In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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

The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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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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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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

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

Proverb

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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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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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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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 parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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

Ben Shahn

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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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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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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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

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

Bangs, Lester