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

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Woodberry, George E.

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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

Waugh, Evelyn

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

11.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

17.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Berle, Adolf

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

Schnitzler, Arthur

20.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

22.

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

Camus, Albert

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

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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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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

30.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

33.

It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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

David Cronenberg

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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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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

42.

Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Conrad, Joseph

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Moses, Grandma