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

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

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Updike, John

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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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 believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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

Buckingham, Duke of

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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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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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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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Bangs, Lester

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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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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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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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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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward