Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Waugh, Evelyn

Best Quotes about Art

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

What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Capp, Al

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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

Walt Whitman

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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

Peri, Gabriel

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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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

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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Bangs, Lester

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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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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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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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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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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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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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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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Bunuel, Luis

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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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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For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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

Varese, Edward

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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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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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

Roosevelt, Theodore