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 people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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

Brown, John Mason

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

Wordsworth, William

Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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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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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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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Gill, Eric

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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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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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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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Ginsberg, Allen

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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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 greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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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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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

David Cronenberg

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Isak Dineson

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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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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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