Motivational Quotes

Art

If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

- Trotsky, Leon

Best Quotes about Art

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

Camus, Albert

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

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

Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Jovovich, Milla

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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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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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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

Frye, Northrop

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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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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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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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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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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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