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

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

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

Cather, Willa

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

M. C. Richards

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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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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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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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Walt Whitman

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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

Cioran, E. M.

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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

Blackie, Professor

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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Bellow, Saul