Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

- Reinhardt, Ad

Best Quotes about Art

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Frost, Robert

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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

Shakespeare, William

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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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

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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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 highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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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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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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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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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

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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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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord