Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Miguel de Cervantes

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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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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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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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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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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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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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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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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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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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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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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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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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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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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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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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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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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

Simonides

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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 never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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

Gill, Eric

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

George Tooker