Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Art

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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

Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Warhol, Andy

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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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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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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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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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 history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

M. C. Richards

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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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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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

Moses, Grandma

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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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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

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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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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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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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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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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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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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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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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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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.