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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Kempis, Thomas

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Weil, Simone

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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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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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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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 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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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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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 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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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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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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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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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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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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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Frye, Northrop

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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Lewis, Sinclair