Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

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

I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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

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

Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

William Baziotes

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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

Anderson, Judith

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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 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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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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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

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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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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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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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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.

Mandino, Og

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Arp, Jean

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

Paz, Octavio

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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

Proverb, Chinese

46.

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward