Motivational Quotes

Art

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

- Mcluhan, Marshall

Best Quotes about Art

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

Woodberry, George E.

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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

Zola, Emile

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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

Simonides

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Cioran, E. M.

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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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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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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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

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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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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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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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

Warhol, Andy

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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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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 artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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 have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John