Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Best Quotes about Art

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

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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

Motherwell, Robert

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Eliot, T. S.

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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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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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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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

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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

Simonides

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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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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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

Riding, Laura

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.