Motivational Quotes

Art

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

- Pablo Picasso

Best Quotes about Art

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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

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

No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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

Wilson, Robert

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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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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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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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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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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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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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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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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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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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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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 I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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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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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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 raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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

Piet Mondrian

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William