Motivational Quotes

Art

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

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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

Tynan, Kenneth

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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

Ovid

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Blackie, Professor

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Eugene Delacroix

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Truman, Harry S

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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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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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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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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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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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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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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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

Proverb

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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 no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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

Gutzkow

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

Novalis

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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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