Motivational Quotes

Art

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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Best Quotes about Art

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Al Capp

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

12.

No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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

Riding, Laura

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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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

Zola, Emile

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

23.

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

30.

What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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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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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Novalis

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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri