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 would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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

Yu Cao

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Brown, John Mason

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Holyfield, Evander

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

Piet Mondrian

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

Woodberry, George E.

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang 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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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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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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

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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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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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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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

28.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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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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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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

Peri, Gabriel

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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

Simonides

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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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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 heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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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 the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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

Berle, Adolf

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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.