Motivational Quotes

Art

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Art

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

Anderson, Judith

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

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

Shaw, George Bernard

What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Ginsberg, Allen

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

Novalis

12.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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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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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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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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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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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Peri, Gabriel

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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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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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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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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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

30.

There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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

40.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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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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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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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 position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.