Motivational Quotes

Art

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Art

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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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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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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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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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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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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

Shakespeare, William

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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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.

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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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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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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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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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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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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