Motivational Quotes

Art

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

- M. C. Richards

Best Quotes about Art

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Varese, Edward

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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.

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

Capp, Al

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

Woodberry, George E.

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Zola, Emile

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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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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Morris, William

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Blackie, Professor

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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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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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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