Motivational Quotes

Art

A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

- Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Best Quotes about Art

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

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

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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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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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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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

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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

Paz, Octavio

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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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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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

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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

Eugene Delacroix

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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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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Berle, Adolf

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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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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Gill, Eric

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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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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador