Motivational Quotes

Art

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Art

It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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

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

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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

Thurber, James

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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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

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Edith Wharton

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

Eugene Delacroix

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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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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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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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

Peri, Gabriel

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

Midler, Bette

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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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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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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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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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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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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.