Motivational Quotes

Art

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

- Mcluhan, Marshall

Best Quotes about Art

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Eugene Delacroix

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

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

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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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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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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

Andre Gide

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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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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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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 distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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

David Cronenberg

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

Schumann, Robert

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Warhol, Andy

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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

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

Blackie, Professor

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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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 covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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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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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.