Motivational Quotes

Art

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

- Gill, Eric

Best Quotes about Art

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

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Moses, Grandma

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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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

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Klee, Paul

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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

Simonides

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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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

Chopra, Deepak

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Frye, Northrop

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

Shakespeare, William

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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 am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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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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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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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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

Driscoll, Louise

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Sand, George

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Benjamin, Walter

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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

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

Paz, Octavio

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.