Motivational Quotes

Art

Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

- Varese, Edward

Best Quotes about Art

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Piet Mondrian

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

Frye, Northrop

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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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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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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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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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

Chopra, Deepak

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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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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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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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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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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