Motivational Quotes

Art

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

- Pablo Picasso

Best Quotes about Art

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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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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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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

Brancusi, Constantin

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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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 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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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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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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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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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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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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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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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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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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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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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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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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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister