Motivational Quotes

Art

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

- Walt Whitman

Best Quotes about Art

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

Proverb

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

Weil, Simone

The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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

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

Piet Mondrian

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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

Truman, Harry S

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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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 contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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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 for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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

Berle, Adolf

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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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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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Edmond de Goncourt

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton