Motivational Quotes

Art

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Art

We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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

Cather, Willa

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

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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

M. C. Richards

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

Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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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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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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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 powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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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

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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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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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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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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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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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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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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Warhol, Andy

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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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