Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Art

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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

Eliot, T. S.

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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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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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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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Frye, Northrop

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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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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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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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

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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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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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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

Joyce, James

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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Piero Milani

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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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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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt