Motivational Quotes

Art

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Art

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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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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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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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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

Yu Cao

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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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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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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

33.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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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

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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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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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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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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.