Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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

Wordsworth, William

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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

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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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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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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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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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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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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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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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 heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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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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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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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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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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

Pascal, Blaise

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

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