Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about Art

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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

Kronenberger, Louis

I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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

Chopra, Deepak

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

M. C. Richards

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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

Ruskin, John

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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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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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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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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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Proverb, Chinese

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis