Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

- Sand, George

Best Quotes about Art

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

David Cronenberg

Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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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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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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

Midler, Bette

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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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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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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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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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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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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

Ginsberg, Allen

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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

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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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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Simonides

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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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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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

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.