Motivational Quotes

Art

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

- Pablo Picasso

Best Quotes about Art

I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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

Howe, Nathaniel

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Joyce, James

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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

Ben Shahn

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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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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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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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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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jacob, Max

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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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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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Buckingham, Duke of

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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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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

M. C. Richards

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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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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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 heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Paz, Octavio

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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo