Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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

Parker, Dorothy

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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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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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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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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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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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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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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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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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Morris, William

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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

Al Capp

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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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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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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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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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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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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira