Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Peri, Gabriel

Best Quotes about Art

The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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

Yu Cao

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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

Frye, Northrop

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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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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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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 work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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

Cioran, E. M.

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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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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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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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Moses, Grandma

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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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

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

Bangs, Lester

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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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

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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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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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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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

Paz, Octavio

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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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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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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami