Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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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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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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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

Novalis

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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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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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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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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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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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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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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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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

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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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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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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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

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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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 essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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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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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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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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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert