Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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

It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Moses, Grandma

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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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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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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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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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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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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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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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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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Jackson Pollock

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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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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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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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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

Cather, Willa

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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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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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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben