Motivational Quotes

Art

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Art

The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Berle, Adolf

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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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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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Moses, Grandma

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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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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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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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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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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

Kael, Pauline

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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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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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Paz, Octavio

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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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 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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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos