Motivational Quotes

Art

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

- George Tooker

Best Quotes about Art

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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

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

Sand, George

For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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

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

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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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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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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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Woodberry, George E.

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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

Novalis

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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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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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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

Klee, Paul

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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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

Kooning, Willem De

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Kael, Pauline

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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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

Camus, Albert