Motivational Quotes

Art

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

- Woodberry, George E.

Best Quotes about Art

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

Ben Shahn

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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

M. C. Richards

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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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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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.

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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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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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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Brancusi, Constantin

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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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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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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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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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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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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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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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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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.