Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- M. C. Richards

Best Quotes about Art

Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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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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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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

David Cronenberg

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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.

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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

M. C. Richards

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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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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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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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

Camus, Albert

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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 either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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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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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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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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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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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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