Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is the objectification of feeling.

- Langer, Suzanne K.

Best Quotes about Art

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

Gide, Andre

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ward Jenkins

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

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Peri, Gabriel

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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

Piero Milani

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Berle, Adolf

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

David Cronenberg

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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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

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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

Mailer, Norman

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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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

Gill, Eric

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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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

Camus, Albert

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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo