Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Art

Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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

Jeff Melvoin

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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

Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Proverb

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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

M. C. Richards

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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Novalis

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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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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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

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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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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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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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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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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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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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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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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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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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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