Motivational Quotes

Art

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

- Piet Mondrian

Best Quotes about Art

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

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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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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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Novalis

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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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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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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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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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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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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

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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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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Riding, Laura

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

48.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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

Jackson Pollock

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George