Motivational Quotes

Art

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

- Mcluhan, Marshall

Best Quotes about Art

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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

Gill, Eric

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

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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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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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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

Updike, John

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

David Cronenberg

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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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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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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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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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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 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

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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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 an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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

Bellow, Saul

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume