Motivational Quotes

Art

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

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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

Piero Milani

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

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Moses, Grandma

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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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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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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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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 can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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

Kooning, Willem De

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.