Motivational Quotes

Art

Art, that great undogmatized church.

- Key, Ellen

Best Quotes about Art

What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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

Schumann, Robert

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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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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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Love can heal a broken heart.

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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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

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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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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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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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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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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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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.

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

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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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.

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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

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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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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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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.