Motivational Quotes

Art

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Art

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Woodberry, George E.

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Jacob, Max

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

Lowell, James Russell

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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

Klee, Paul

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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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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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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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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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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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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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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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 dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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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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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Piero Milani

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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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

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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

Jackson Pollock

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander