Motivational Quotes

Art

I shut my eyes in order to see.

- Paul Gauguin

Best Quotes about Art

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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

Edmond de Goncourt

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

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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Repetition is the death of art.

Robin Green

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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

Castaneda, Carlos

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Frida Kahlo

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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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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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

Updike, John

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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

Parker, Dorothy

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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

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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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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Chopra, Deepak

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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