Motivational Quotes

Art

In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

- Kooning, Willem De

Best Quotes about Art

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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

Edmond de Goncourt

Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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

Peri, Gabriel

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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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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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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

Cioran, E. M.

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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

Riding, Laura

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Conrad, Joseph

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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

Piero Milani

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

Berle, Adolf

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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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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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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

Gill, Eric

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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

Midler, Bette

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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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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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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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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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose