Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about Art

I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Joyce, James

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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

Yu Cao

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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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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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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

Bellow, Saul

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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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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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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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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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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

Al Capp