Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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

Picasso, Pablo

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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

David Cronenberg

What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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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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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

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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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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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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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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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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 raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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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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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Riding, Laura

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney