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

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.

Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Parker, Dorothy

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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

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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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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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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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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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

Walt Whitman

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

Wilson, Robert

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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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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 finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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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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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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

Baudelaire, Charles