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

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

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

Piero Milani

Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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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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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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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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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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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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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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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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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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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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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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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