Motivational Quotes

Art

Repetition is the death of art.

- Robin Green

Best Quotes about Art

Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

10.

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

Ginsberg, Allen

11.

I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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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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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Miguel de Cervantes

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

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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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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

34.

On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Voznesensky, Andrei

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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Erasmus, Desiderius

44.

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Novalis

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish