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

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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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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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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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

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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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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Camus, Albert

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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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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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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

Proverb

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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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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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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

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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 raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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