Motivational Quotes

Art

I shut my eyes in order to see.

- Paul Gauguin

Best Quotes about Art

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Blackie, Professor

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

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Proverb, Chinese

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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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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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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

Klee, Paul

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Ciardi, John

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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

Bangs, Lester

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

Shakespeare, William

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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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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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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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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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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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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

Frye, Northrop

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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas