Motivational Quotes

Art

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

- Winkelmann

Best Quotes about Art

Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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

M. C. Richards

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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

Wilson, Robert

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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 True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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

Edith Wharton

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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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 moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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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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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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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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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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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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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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

Parker, Theodore

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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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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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Picasso, Pablo

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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