Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Voznesensky, Andrei

Best Quotes about Art

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

Varese, Edward

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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

Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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

Wilson, Robert

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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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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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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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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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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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Jovovich, Milla

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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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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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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

West, Rebecca

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Pablo Picasso

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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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