Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Art

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

Cassady, Neal

You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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

Kennedy, John F.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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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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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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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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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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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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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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

Parker, Dorothy

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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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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

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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

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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