Motivational Quotes

Art

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Art

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Al Capp

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Joyce, James

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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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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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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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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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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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

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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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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Kael, Pauline