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

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

Zola, Emile

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

In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Edith Wharton

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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

Driscoll, Louise

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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Walt Whitman

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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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 heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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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 will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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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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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Richter, Jean Paul

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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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

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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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

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von