Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Art

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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

In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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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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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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

Elizabeth Bowen

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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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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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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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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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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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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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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