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

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

Capp, Al

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

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

Conrad, Joseph

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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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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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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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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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

West, Rebecca

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bangs, Lester

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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

Moses, Grandma

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

Proverb

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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

Simonides

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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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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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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

George Tooker

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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