Motivational Quotes

Art

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

- Pound, Ezra

Best Quotes about Art

What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

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

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

Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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.

I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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

Walt Whitman

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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 is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

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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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Ward Jenkins

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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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