Motivational Quotes

Art

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

- Rosenberg, Harold

Best Quotes about Art

I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Anderson, Judith

You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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

Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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

David Cronenberg

Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Andre Gide

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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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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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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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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 heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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

Peri, Gabriel

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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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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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

32.

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

33.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

34.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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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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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

37.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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

Wilson, Robert

40.

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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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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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David