Motivational Quotes

Art

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Art

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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

M. C. Richards

I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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

Joyce, James

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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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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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Piero Milani

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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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 like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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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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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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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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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Cather, Willa

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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