Motivational Quotes

Art

Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

- Penn Jillette

Best Quotes about Art

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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

Einstein, Albert

The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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 heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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

Bangs, Lester

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

Frye, Northrop

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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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 the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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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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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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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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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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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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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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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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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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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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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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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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 heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Kooning, Willem De

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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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

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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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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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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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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max