Motivational Quotes

Art

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Art

What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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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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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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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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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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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

David Cronenberg

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

Updike, John

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

37.

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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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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

Moses, Grandma

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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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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure