Motivational Quotes

Art

Repetition is the death of art.

- Robin Green

Best Quotes about Art

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

Walt Whitman

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

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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.

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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

Moses, Grandma

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

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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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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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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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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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 is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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

Schumann, Robert

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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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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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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

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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Anderson, Judith

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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose