Motivational Quotes

Art

Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

- Parker, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Art

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

In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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.

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Updike, John

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

Pablo Picasso

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Midler, Bette

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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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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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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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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Klee, Paul

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Shakespeare, William

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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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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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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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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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

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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert