Motivational Quotes

Art

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

- Maistre, Joseph De

Best Quotes about Art

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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

Eugene Delacroix

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Riding, Laura

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

Camus, Albert

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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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 are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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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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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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

Simonides

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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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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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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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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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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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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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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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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

David Cronenberg

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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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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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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