Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Art

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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.

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

It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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

Cather, Willa

Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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

Duke Ellington

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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

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

Buckingham, Duke of

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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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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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Lowell, James Russell

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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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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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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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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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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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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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert