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

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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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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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Driscoll, Louise

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Chopra, Deepak

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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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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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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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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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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

George Tooker

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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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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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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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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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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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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