Motivational Quotes

Art

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Art

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

Truman, Harry S

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

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

Connolly, Cyril

I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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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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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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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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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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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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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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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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

Driscoll, Louise

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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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

Keller, Helen

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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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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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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

Gide, Andre

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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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