Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Art

Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Sand, George

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

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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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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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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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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 is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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

Kael, Pauline

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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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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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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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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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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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

Piet Mondrian

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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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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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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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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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

Berle, Adolf

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Balance is the enemy of art.