Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Stephen Nachmanovitch

Best Quotes about Art

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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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 a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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

Duke Ellington

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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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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 of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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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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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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

Frye, Northrop

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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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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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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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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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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

Ginsberg, Allen

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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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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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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

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