Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is the objectification of feeling.

- Langer, Suzanne K.

Best Quotes about Art

When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Kooning, Willem De

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

Berle, Adolf

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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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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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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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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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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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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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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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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

Camus, Albert

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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

Wilson, Robert

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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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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Driscoll, Louise

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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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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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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Love can heal a broken heart.

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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

Frye, Northrop

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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