Motivational Quotes

Art

In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

- Lewis, Sinclair

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

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Ionesco, Eugene

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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 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 essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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

Keller, Helen

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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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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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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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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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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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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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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

Berle, Adolf

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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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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