Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

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

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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

Brown, John Mason

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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)

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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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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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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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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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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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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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Warhol, Andy

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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 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

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

M. C. Richards

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

David Cronenberg

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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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

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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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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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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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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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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John