Motivational Quotes

Art

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Art

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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 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

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Barenboim, Daniel

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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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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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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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 heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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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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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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

Simonides

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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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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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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

Warhol, Andy

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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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 artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.