Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

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

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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

Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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

Gill, Eric

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Camus, Albert

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Piero Milani

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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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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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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

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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne 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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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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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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Love can heal a broken heart.

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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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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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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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.