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

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

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

Anderson, Lindsay

Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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 head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Yu Cao

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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

Peri, Gabriel

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Riding, Laura

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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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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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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 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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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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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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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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

Ward Jenkins

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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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