Motivational Quotes

Art

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

- Updike, John

Best Quotes about Art

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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

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

You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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

Bangs, Lester

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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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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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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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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

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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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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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Piero Milani

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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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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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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

Eugene Delacroix

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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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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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

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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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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De