Motivational Quotes

Art

The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Art

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Walt Whitman

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Wilson, Robert

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

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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

Novalis

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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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

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bangs, Lester

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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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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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, 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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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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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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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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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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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De