Motivational Quotes

Art

Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

- Parker, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Art

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

Kennedy, John F.

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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

Holyfield, Evander

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Riding, Laura

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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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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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Proverb, Chinese

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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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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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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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

Jackson Pollock

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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 biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Shakespeare, William

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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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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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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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James