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 aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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

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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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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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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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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Novalis

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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

Weil, Simone

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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

Bangs, Lester

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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

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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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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.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

William Baziotes

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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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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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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