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

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Moses, Grandma

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

Camus, Albert

The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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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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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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

Truman, Harry S

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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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

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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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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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

Novalis

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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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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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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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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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Connolly, Cyril

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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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 no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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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 creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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

Andre Gide