Motivational Quotes

Art

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

- Tynan, Kenneth

Best Quotes about Art

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

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

Schnitzler, Arthur

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason

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

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Elizabeth Bowen

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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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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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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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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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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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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Anderson, Judith

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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

Kronenberger, Louis

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I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

Luther, Martin

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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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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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Schumann, Robert

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

Ovid

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

Paz, Octavio

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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Pound, Ezra

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao