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

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

Jackson Pollock

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Midler, Bette

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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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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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

Berle, Adolf

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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 I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Eugene Delacroix

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Capp, Al

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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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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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Motherwell, Robert

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

M. C. Richards

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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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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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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