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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Capp, Al

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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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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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Klee, Paul

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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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

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Driscoll, Louise

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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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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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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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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Joyce, James

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean