Motivational Quotes

Art

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Art

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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

Einstein, Albert

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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

Parker, Theodore

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

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

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

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

West, Rebecca

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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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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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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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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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

18.

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

19.

There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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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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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

23.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

24.

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

Piero Milani

25.

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

Frost, Robert

26.

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

31.

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

32.

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

Kael, Pauline

34.

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

Klee, Paul

35.

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

36.

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

Bangs, Lester

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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

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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

42.

What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

43.

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

44.

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

45.

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

46.

Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

47.

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

48.

What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

49.

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

50.

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.