Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Woodberry, George E.

Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Chagall, Marc

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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Landers, Ann

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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

Ciardi, John

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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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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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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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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

Andre Gide

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Duke Ellington

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

G. K. Chesterton

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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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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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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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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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Hockney, David

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

Murdoch, Iris