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

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

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Driscoll, Louise

What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Frye, Northrop

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Warhol, Andy

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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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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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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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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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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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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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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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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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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

Klee, Paul

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

Piero Milani

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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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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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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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Morris, William

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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