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

Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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 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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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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 head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Einstein, Albert

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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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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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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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

Gill, Eric

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

Berle, Adolf

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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 heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Duke Ellington

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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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

David Cronenberg

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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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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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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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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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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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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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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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace