Motivational Quotes

Art

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Art

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Jeff Melvoin

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

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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

Churchill, Winston

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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

Picasso, Pablo

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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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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 public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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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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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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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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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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

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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Cather, Willa

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Brancusi, Constantin

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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 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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Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin