Motivational Quotes

Art

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Art

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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

Picasso, Pablo

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Gill, Eric

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

Ginsberg, Allen

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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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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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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 great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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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

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

Piero Milani

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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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

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

Warhol, Andy

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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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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