Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Cather, Willa

Best Quotes about Art

Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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

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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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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

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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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 teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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

Proverb

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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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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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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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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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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

Camus, Albert

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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

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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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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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

Novalis

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

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

Tynan, Kenneth