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

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

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

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

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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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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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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

Duke Ellington

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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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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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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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 best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Ovid

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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Gill, Eric

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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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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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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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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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

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

Motherwell, Robert