Motivational Quotes

Art

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

- Pearse, Patrick Henry

Best Quotes about Art

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Al Capp

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Kael, Pauline

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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

Zola, Emile

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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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

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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Joyce, James

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

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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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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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

Holyfield, Evander

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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

Jeff Melvoin

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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ruckett

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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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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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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky