Motivational Quotes

Art

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

Best Quotes about Art

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

Truman, Harry S

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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

Motherwell, Robert

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Duke Ellington

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

M. C. Richards

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A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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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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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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

Piero Milani

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

Berle, Adolf

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Conrad, Joseph

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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Edith Wharton

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

Moses, Grandma

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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

Driscoll, Louise

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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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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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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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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Drummond, John

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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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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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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

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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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