Motivational Quotes

Art

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Art

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

Picasso, Pablo

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

12.

It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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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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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

17.

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

18.

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

19.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

20.

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

21.

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

Wolfe, Thomas

22.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

23.

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

29.

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

30.

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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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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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

36.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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

38.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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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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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

44.

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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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

46.

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 first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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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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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock