Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

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

The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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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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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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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

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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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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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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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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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 hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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

Camus, Albert

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

Driscoll, Louise

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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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

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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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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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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

Holyfield, Evander

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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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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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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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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Paz, Octavio