Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- West, Rebecca

Best Quotes about Art

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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

Brancusi, Constantin

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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

Camus, Albert

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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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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

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

Bangs, Lester

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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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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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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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

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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

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Peri, Gabriel

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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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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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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.