Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is a form of catharsis.

- Parker, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Camus, Albert

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

Ciardi, John

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

Rosenberg, Harold

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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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 moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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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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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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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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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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

Frye, Northrop

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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Kennedy, John F.

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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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

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

Cioran, E. M.

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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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

Klee, Paul