Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is the signature of civilizations.

- Sills, Beverly

Best Quotes about Art

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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

Murdoch, Iris

Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Al Capp

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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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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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ginsberg, Allen

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

Schnitzler, Arthur

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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

Woodberry, George E.

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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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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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

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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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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

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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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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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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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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman