Motivational Quotes

Art

Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Art

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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

Walt Whitman

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

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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

Ionesco, Eugene

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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

Novalis

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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

Klee, Paul

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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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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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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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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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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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

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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

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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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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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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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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Gill, Eric

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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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

Piero Milani

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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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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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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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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