Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Simonides

Best Quotes about Art

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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

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

Camus, Albert

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

Thurber, James

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

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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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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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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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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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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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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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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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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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

West, Rebecca

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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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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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Blackie, Professor

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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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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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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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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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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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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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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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What we play is life.