Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

- Tzara, Tristan

Best Quotes about Art

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Rosenberg, Harold

Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Gide, Andre

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Driscoll, Louise

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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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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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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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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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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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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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.