Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Art

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

Melville, Herman

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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

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

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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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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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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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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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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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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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Jackson Pollock

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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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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Al Capp

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce