Motivational Quotes

Art

O, had I but followed the arts!

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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

Frye, Northrop

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

Proverb

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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

G. K. Chesterton

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Novalis

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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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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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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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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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 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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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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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

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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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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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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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.

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Driscoll, Louise

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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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 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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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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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso