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 can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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 more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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

Shakespeare, William

Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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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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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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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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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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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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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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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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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 distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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 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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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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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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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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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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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone