Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Midler, Bette

Best Quotes about Art

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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

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

Edith Wharton

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

Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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

Riding, Laura

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Frye, Northrop

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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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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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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

Paz, Octavio

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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 seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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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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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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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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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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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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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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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

Eugene Delacroix

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis