Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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

Wilson, Robert

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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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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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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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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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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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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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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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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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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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

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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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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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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