Motivational Quotes

Art

Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

- Piero Milani

Best Quotes about Art

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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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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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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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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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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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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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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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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 vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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