Motivational Quotes

Art

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

- Tagore, Rabindranath

Best Quotes about Art

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Schnitzler, Arthur

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 either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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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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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

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

Truman, Harry S

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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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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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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Yu Cao

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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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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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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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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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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

Duke Ellington

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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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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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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