Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Updike, John

Best Quotes about Art

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

Simonides

Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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

Dubuffet, Jean

10.

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

Moses, Grandma

11.

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

Parker, Dorothy

12.

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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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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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Churchill, Winston

17.

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

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

Ionesco, Eugene

19.

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

Pablo Picasso

20.

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

Ginsberg, Allen

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

23.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

24.

Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

30.

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

Conrad, Joseph

31.

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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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

34.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

36.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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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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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

45.

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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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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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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.