Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Art

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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 way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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

David Cronenberg

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

Camus, Albert

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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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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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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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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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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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

31.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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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 is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

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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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

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Riding, Laura

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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

Novalis

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.