Motivational Quotes

Art

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Art

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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

In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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

Bellow, Saul

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

Schumann, Robert

Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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

Paz, Octavio

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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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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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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

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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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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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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 think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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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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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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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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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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Love can heal a broken heart.

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.