Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is a form of catharsis.

- Parker, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Art

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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

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

Capp, Al

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Riding, Laura

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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 art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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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

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

Updike, John

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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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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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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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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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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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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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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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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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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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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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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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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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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.