Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Best Quotes about Art

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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

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

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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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

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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

Driscoll, Louise

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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

Riding, Laura

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

David Cronenberg

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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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 more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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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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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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

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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 choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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.