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

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

Blackie, Professor

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

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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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

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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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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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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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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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

Simonides

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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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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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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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

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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

Einstein, Albert

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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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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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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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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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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin