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

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.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Peri, Gabriel

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ciardi, John

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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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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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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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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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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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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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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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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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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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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

Zola, Emile

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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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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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

Berle, Adolf

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

Midler, Bette

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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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

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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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