Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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

Weil, Simone

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

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

Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Duke Ellington

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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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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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William 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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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Arp, Jean

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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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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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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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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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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 can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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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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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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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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