Motivational Quotes

Art

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Art

Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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

Cioran, E. M.

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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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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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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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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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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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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

Proverb

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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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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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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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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Anderson, Judith

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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jeff Melvoin

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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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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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso