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

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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

Jeff Melvoin

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

Edith Wharton

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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

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

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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

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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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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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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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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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Elizabeth Bowen

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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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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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

Jovovich, Milla

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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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

Cioran, E. M.

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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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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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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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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin