Motivational Quotes

Art

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

- Schnitzler, Arthur

Best Quotes about Art

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.

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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

Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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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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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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

Piero Milani

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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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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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Simonides

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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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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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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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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Warhol, Andy

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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

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

Sand, George

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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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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole