Motivational Quotes

Art

Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

- Pound, Ezra

Best Quotes about Art

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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

[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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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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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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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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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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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

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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 sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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

Duke Ellington

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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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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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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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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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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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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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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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

Piero Milani

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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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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Zola, Emile

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador