Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

Henry Ward Beecher

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Miguel de Cervantes

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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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 primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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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

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

David Cronenberg

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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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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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

Yu Cao

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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

Anderson, Judith

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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

Churchill, Winston

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Berle, Adolf

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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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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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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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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I shut my eyes in order to see.