Motivational Quotes

Art

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

- Sontag, Susan

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

Klee, Paul

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

Duke Ellington

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

Howe, Nathaniel

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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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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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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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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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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

Zola, Emile

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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Chopra, Deepak

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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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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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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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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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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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von