Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Berle, Adolf

Best Quotes about Art

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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

I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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

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

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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

Duke Ellington

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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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

Paz, Octavio

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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

Berle, Adolf

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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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

Zola, Emile

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Maistre, Joseph De

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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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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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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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 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

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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

Klee, Paul

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

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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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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Frye, Northrop