Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Voznesensky, Andrei

Best Quotes about Art

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

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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

Pablo Picasso

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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

Picasso, Pablo

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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

Truman, Harry S

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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

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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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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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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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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 attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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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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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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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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Love can heal a broken heart.