Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Elizabeth Bowen

Best Quotes about Art

Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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

Yu Cao

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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

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

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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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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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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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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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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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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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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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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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

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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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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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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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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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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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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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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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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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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath