Motivational Quotes

Art

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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Best Quotes about Art

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

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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

Simonides

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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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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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

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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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

Picasso, Pablo

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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 ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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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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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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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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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 is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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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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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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

Piero Milani