Motivational Quotes

Art

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

- Niko Stumpo

Best Quotes about Art

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

Morris, William

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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

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

Ciardi, John

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

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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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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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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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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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

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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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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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 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

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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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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

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

Berle, Adolf

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

Warhol, Andy

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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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 must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Camus, Albert

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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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

Updike, John

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas