Motivational Quotes

Art

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Art

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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

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

I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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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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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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

Parker, Theodore

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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 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 distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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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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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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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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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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

Riding, Laura