Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Art

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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

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

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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

Paz, Octavio

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

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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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

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Al Capp

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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

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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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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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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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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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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

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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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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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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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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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

Godard, Jean-Luc

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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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