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

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Conrad, Joseph

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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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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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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

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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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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

Midler, Bette

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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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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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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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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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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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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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 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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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren