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

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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

Proverb, Chinese

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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

Camus, Albert

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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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

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

Brown, John Mason

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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

Peri, Gabriel

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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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 great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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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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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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

Warhol, Andy

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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Murdoch, Iris

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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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

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy