Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about Art

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ben Shahn

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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

Duke Ellington

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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

George Tooker

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

Connolly, Cyril

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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

Kael, Pauline

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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

Picasso, Pablo

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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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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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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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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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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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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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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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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

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Klee, Paul

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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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 art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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

Joyce, James

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Ruskin, John

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold