Motivational Quotes

Art

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

- Wilson, Robert

Best Quotes about Art

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

Yu Cao

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Proust, Marcel

Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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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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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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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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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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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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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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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas