Motivational Quotes

Art

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

- Wordsworth, William

Best Quotes about Art

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

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

Proverb

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.

Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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

The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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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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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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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 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 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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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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

Shakespeare, William

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Frye, Northrop

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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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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Camus, Albert

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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.