Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Updike, John

Best Quotes about Art

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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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 difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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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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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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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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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

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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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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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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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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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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

Duke Ellington

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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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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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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei