Motivational Quotes

Art

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

- Mcluhan, Marshall

Best Quotes about Art

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

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

Updike, John

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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

Edmond de Goncourt

10.

Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

11.

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

Truman, Harry S

12.

Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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

Schumann, Robert

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

16.

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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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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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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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

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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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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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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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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 forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

29.

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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

Kooning, Willem De

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

Woodberry, George E.

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

33.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

34.

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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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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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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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

39.

The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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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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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

47.

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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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