Motivational Quotes

Art

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

- Wolfe, Thomas

Best Quotes about Art

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

Proverb, Chinese

Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Updike, John

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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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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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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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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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

Chopra, Deepak

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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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

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William