Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Peri, Gabriel

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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

Yu Cao

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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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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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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Warhol, Andy

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Murdoch, Iris

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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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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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall