Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Riding, Laura

Best Quotes about Art

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Cassady, Neal

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Piero Milani

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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

Zola, Emile

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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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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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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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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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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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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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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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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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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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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Eliot, T. S.

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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang 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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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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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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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.