Motivational Quotes

Art

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Art

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Chopra, Deepak

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

Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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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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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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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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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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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Ginsberg, Allen

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

Burroughs, William S.

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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

Eliot, T. S.

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich