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

Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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

Shakespeare, William

Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Jovovich, Milla

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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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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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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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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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Berle, Adolf

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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 aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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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 suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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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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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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

West, Rebecca