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

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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

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

David Cronenberg

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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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

Kael, Pauline

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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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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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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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

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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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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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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What is art but a way of seeing?