Motivational Quotes

Art

Repetition is the death of art.

- Robin Green

Best Quotes about Art

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

Jeff Melvoin

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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

Schumann, Robert

Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Berle, Adolf

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

Morris, William

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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

14.

No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

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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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

28.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Novalis

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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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.

Cassady, Neal

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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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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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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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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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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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

49.

I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo