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 distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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

Chopra, Deepak

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.

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

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

Berle, Adolf

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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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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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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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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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

Jeff Melvoin

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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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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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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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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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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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 not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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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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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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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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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