Motivational Quotes

Art

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Art

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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

Ciardi, John

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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

Berle, Adolf

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

Jackson Pollock

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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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 go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Updike, John

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Zola, Emile

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

Schumann, Robert

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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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

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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

Bangs, Lester