Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Art

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Picasso, Pablo

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 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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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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

Anderson, Judith

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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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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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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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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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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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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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso