Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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

Isak Dineson

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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

Anderson, Judith

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

Ionesco, Eugene

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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

Bierce, Ambrose

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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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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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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 heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Churchill, Winston

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bangs, Lester

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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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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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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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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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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 the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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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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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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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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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 think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Melville, Herman

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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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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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

Piero Milani

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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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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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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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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Riding, Laura

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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

Kooning, Willem De