Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Art

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Moses, Grandma

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

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Proust, Marcel

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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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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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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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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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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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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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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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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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 am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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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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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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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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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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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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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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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

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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 collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kennedy, John F.

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.