Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Art

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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

Barenboim, Daniel

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

Piero Milani

Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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

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

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Jeff Melvoin

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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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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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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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

Paz, Octavio

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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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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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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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.