Motivational Quotes

Art

Art has never been made while thinking of art.

- Niko Stumpo

Best Quotes about Art

It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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

Cioran, E. M.

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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

Novalis

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No sheath shall hold what finds its home in flesh.

Proverb

11.

Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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

Morris, William

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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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

Jeff Melvoin

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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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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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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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

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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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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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

Schumann, Robert

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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

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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

Wilson, Robert

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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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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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

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

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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