Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Best Quotes about Art

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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

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

Blackie, Professor

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

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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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

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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

Cioran, E. M.

19.

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

21.

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

22.

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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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

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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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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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 -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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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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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

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

David Cronenberg

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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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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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

Duke Ellington

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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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 art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert