Motivational Quotes

Art

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

- Niko Stumpo

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

Berle, Adolf

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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 too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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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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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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

Joyce, James

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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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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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.

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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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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

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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

Edmond de Goncourt

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Simonides

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

Frye, Northrop

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

Proust, Marcel

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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

Bangs, Lester

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

Andre Gide

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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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

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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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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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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa