Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

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

Klee, Paul

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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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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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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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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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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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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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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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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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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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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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 painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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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

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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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 Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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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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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.