Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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.

Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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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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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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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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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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 primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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

Warhol, Andy

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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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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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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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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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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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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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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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

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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

David Cronenberg

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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

Moses, Grandma

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

Piero Milani

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider