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

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Ovid

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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

Duke Ellington

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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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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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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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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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