Motivational Quotes

Art

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

- Ciardi, John

Best Quotes about Art

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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

Einstein, Albert

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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

Brown, John Mason

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Klee, Paul

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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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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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

Schumann, Robert

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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

Piet Mondrian

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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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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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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Balance is the enemy of art.

Eyre, Richard

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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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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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

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Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Cather, Willa

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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

William Baziotes

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav