Motivational Quotes

Art

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

- Niko Stumpo

Best Quotes about Art

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Yu Cao

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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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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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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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

G. K. Chesterton

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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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

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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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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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

Warhol, Andy

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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

Klee, Paul

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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

Morris, William

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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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 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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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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

Woodberry, George E.