Motivational Quotes

Art

Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

- Nickolas Muray

Best Quotes about Art

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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

Capp, Al

Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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

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

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Schumann, Robert

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

Gill, Eric

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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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

Bellow, Saul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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

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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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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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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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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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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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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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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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

Chopra, Deepak

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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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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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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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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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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

David Cronenberg

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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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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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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

Joyce, James

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van