Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Klee, Paul

Best Quotes about Art

There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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

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

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

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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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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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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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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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Yu Cao

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Andre Gide

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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

Camus, Albert

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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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

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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

Klee, Paul