Motivational Quotes

Art

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Art

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Gill, Eric

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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 heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Joyce, James

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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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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell