Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Art

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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

Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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

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 will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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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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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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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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

Kennedy, John F.

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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

Proust, Marcel

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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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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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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

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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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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne 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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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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

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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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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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 man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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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

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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

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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