Motivational Quotes

Art

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

- Zedong, Mao

Best Quotes about Art

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

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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

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

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

Ginsberg, Allen

Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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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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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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

Peri, Gabriel

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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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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 function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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

Bangs, Lester

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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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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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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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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, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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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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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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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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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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

M. C. Richards

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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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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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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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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Camus, Albert

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Beecher, Henry Ward