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

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

Keller, Helen

The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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

Anderson, Bill

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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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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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Chopra, Deepak

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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 the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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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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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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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.

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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 progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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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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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Klee, Paul

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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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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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Walt Whitman

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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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

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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.