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

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Driscoll, Louise

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

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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Ruckett

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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

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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

Simonides

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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

David Cronenberg

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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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

Bangs, Lester

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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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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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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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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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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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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

William Baziotes