Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Voznesensky, Andrei

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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

Bellow, Saul

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Conrad, Joseph

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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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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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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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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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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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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

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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

Moses, Grandma

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

Riding, Laura

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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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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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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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

Driscoll, Louise

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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

Bangs, Lester

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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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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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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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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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean