Motivational Quotes

Art

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Art

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Baudelaire, Charles

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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

Ovid

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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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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Chopra, Deepak

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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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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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 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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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Piet Mondrian

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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

Picasso, Pablo

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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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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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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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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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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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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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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert