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

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

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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

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

Mailer, Norman

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

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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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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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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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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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 art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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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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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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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 human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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

Gill, Eric

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Midler, Bette

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

Frost, Robert

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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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, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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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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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt