Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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

Mailer, Norman

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

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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

Henry Ward Beecher

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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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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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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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

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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Yu Cao

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

Sand, George

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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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 dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Bangs, Lester

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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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

Frye, Northrop

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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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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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Simonides

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

Shakespeare, William

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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Trocchi, Alexander

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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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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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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel