Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Yu Cao

Best Quotes about Art

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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

Camus, Albert

The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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

Peri, Gabriel

Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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

Bangs, Lester

There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Midler, Bette

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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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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

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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 biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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 artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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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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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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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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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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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

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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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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Love can heal a broken heart.

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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

Camus, Albert

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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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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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John