Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Zola, Emile

Best Quotes about Art

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sand, George

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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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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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

15.

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

G. K. Chesterton

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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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

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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

Eliot, T. S.

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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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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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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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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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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

Pascal, Blaise