Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Art

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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.

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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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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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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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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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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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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

Anderson, Bill

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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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

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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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

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

Paz, Octavio

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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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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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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

William Baziotes

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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 the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

John F. Kennedy

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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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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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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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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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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Walt Whitman

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Piero Milani

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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