Motivational Quotes

Art

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

- Schumann, Robert

Best Quotes about Art

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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

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

Ruckett

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

Midler, Bette

The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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

Duke Ellington

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb

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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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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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

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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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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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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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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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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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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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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

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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

Weil, Simone

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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

Ginsberg, Allen

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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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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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

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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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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.