Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Paz, Octavio

Best Quotes about Art

The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Baudelaire, Charles

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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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

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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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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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

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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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

Schumann, Robert

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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 man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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

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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 see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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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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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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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 great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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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

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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