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

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

Morris, William

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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

Jacob, Max

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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

Rosenberg, Harold

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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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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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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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

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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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 difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Buckingham, Duke of

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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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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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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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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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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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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

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

Berle, Adolf

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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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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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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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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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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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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 raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al