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

Love can heal a broken heart.

What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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

Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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

Weil, Simone

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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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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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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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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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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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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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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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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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 good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Riding, Laura

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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

Proverb

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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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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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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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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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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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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.