Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Art

Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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

G. K. Chesterton

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Andre Gide

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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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 biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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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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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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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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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Anderson, Bill

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

Simonides

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

David Cronenberg

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

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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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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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.