Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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

Warhol, Andy

Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

11.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

21.

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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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

Simonides

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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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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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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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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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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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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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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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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.