Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Peri, Gabriel

Best Quotes about Art

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

Rosenberg, Harold

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Zola, Emile

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Berle, Adolf

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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

William Baziotes

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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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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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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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

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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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

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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

Moses, Grandma

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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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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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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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

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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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

Frye, Northrop

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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