Motivational Quotes

Art

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

- Wright, Frank Lloyd

Best Quotes about Art

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

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Truman, Harry S

There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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

David Cronenberg

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

Eugene Delacroix

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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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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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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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

M. C. Richards

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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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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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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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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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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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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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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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

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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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

Zola, Emile

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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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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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

Warhol, Andy

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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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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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette