Motivational Quotes

Art

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

- Renoir, Pierre Auguste

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

Elizabeth Bowen

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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

In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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

Ruckett

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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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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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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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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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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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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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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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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

Eliot, T. S.