Motivational Quotes

Art

There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

- Rich, Adrienne

Best Quotes about Art

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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

Schumann, Robert

Love can heal a broken heart.

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

William Baziotes

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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

Bangs, Lester

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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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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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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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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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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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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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Zola, Emile

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.