Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

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

Anderson, Lindsay

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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

The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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

Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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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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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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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Gill, Eric

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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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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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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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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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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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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

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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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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

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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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 True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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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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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

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Eugene Delacroix

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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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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

M. C. Richards