Motivational Quotes

Art

Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

- William Baziotes

Best Quotes about Art

I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Shakespeare, William

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Warhol, Andy

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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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

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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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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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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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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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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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

Schnitzler, Arthur

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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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

Proverb

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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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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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards