Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

- Paul Gauguin

Best Quotes about Art

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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

Pablo Picasso

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

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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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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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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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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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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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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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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

Proverb, Chinese

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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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

Riding, Laura

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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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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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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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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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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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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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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent