Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Capp, Al

There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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

In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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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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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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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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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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

Blackie, Professor

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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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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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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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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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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

Camus, Albert

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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

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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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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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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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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini