Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

- Reinhardt, Ad

Best Quotes about Art

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Wilson, Robert

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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

What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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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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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

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Wolfe, Thomas

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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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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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Andre Gide

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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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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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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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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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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

Updike, John

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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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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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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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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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