Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

- Reinhardt, Ad

Best Quotes about Art

Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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

Schnitzler, Arthur

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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

Jeff Melvoin

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

Bangs, Lester

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Schumann, Robert

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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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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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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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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Shakespeare, William

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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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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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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

Pablo Picasso

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.