Motivational Quotes

Art

Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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Best Quotes about Art

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

Klee, Paul

The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Moses, Grandma

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

West, Rebecca

Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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

Walt Whitman

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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

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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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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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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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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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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 progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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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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Love can heal a broken heart.

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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

Proverb

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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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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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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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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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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