Motivational Quotes

Art

I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

- Ward Jenkins

Best Quotes about Art

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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

Capp, Al

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

George Tooker

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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

Novalis

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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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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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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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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

Barenboim, Daniel

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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon