Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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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

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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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

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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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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Yu Cao

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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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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

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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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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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann