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

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Jeff Melvoin

It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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

Frost, Robert

Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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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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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Camus, Albert

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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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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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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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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

Capp, Al

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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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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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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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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 choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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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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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

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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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

Paz, Octavio

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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 more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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

Duke Ellington

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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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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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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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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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy