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

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

George Tooker

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

Berle, Adolf

What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Lowell, James Russell

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Brancusi, Constantin

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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Penn Jillette

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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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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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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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

Kael, Pauline

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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

Moses, Grandma

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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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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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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

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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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 not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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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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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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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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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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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Jacob, Max