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

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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

Picasso, Pablo

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Gutzkow

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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

Pablo Picasso

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

Motherwell, Robert

Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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.

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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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.

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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

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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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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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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 the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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

G. K. Chesterton

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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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

M. C. Richards

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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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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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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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