Motivational Quotes

Art

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

- Simonides

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Novalis

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

Paz, Octavio

Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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

Moses, Grandma

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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Warhol, Andy

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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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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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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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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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Zola, Emile

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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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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla